Sean Moonsammy is a professionally trained opera singer, voice-specializing speech-language pathologist, and singing voice teacher. He specializes in singing voice rehabilitation and habilitation, gender-affirming voice care, and upper airway disease management. His performing career has allotted him to sing backups for Elton John, perform on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The U.S. Open opening ceremony, and has accompanied Josh Groban as a backup singer through two national tours. Sean commenced his voice training at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City; he subsequently obtained his BM and MM in opera performance at the Aaron Copland School of Music, as well as his MA in speech-language pathology from City University of New York: Queens College. He holds his clinical doctorate in speech-language pathology from Massachusets General Hospital. He completed his clinical fellowship as an acute care and outpatient provider specializing in voice/upper-airway disorders at Stony Brook University Hospital. Dr. Moonsammy’s publications focus on liberatory practices within communication sciences and disorders. His professional career has been featured within the ASHA Leader: In the Limelight,  “SLPs of Color,” and “The 8%” podcast. He hopes to continually raise awareness of voice disorders and destigmatizing vocal injury among professional voice users.