Janet Desmarais

Janet Desmarais is the current lab manager for the ABR Lab and studies the effects of bilingualism and musicianship on the auditory system. Janet formerly taught physics and Spanish in the US and English in Peru. She also previously worked as a program coordinator and office manager in a Hartford-based non-profit and in higher education settings including Wesleyan University and the Yale School of Medicine. Janet holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Rochester and completed a master’s degree in speech language pathology at UConn in 2023. Her personal and clinical interests include singing, cultural and linguistic diversity, speech science, and gender-affirming voice and communication.