Kelly L. Tremblay MSc, PhD, CCC-A, FAAA

Dr. Kelly Tremblay is a Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Growing up, Dr. Tremblay found she gravitated towards the fields of anthropology and medicine—fields in which she could study both social and biological contexts of human behavior—and it led her to a career as an Audiologist. She later earned her doctorate in Neuroscience and joined the faculty in UW’s Speech and Hearing Sciences. During her upbringing and education, she had very little access to female scientists. It was not until Dr. Tremblay met her PhD advisor, Dr. Nina Kraus, at Northwestern University that she professionally and personally connected with women in her field. Dr. Kraus was instrumental in her learning to become a world-class scientist while simultaneously raising children with her husband. Dr. Kraus demonstrated so many practical, and often unconventional, examples of work/life balance that Dr. Tremblay later adopted into her own family. For example, Dr. Tremblay’s husband chose to work from home so he could have a flexible schedule for their infant children. That flexibility helped Kelly prepare for tenure during her early career as a professor. While she sites work/life balance as a continuous struggle, her credits creativity and adaptability as strategies that allow her to juggle her many demands and thrive as a scientist.