Trina Spencer, Ph.D., BCBA-D is an associate professor at the Rightpath Research & Innovation Center in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences. As a former school psychologist, preschool teacher, and behavior analyst, it is reasonable that Dr. Spencer's research spans many disciplines. Drawing from speech-language pathology, applied linguistics, education, and behavior analysis, she concentrates her efforts on the oral academic language that serves as a foundation to the reading and writing of primary-age students, with and without disabilities. Dr. Spencer values researcher-practitioner partnerships, community engagement, and cross-disciplinary collaborations to accomplish high-impact and innovative applied research. She maintains a spirited research agenda that has yielded 54 peer-review publications, 120 invited presentations, $13M in external funding, and several commercialized curricula, interventions, professional development systems, and assessment tools. Her interventions are used broadly in the United States, but also internationally (e.g., Australia, India, Israel, Iran, Mexico, Iceland, and Canada). Dr. Spencer is also heavily involved in the development of quality autism services in Belarus and South Africa and in building capacity locally. Although initially awarded a Fulbright award in 2020 and after a significant delay due to the pandemic, Dr. Spencer is finally in South Africa. As part of her Fulbright project, she works with colleagues at the University of Pretoria's Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication and numerous other community partners to examine the use of oral storytelling as a tool for promoting the acquisition of additional languages in South African schools and teaching complex expressive language to children with communication disabilities who use augmentative and alternative communication. At the University of Pretoria, Dr. Spencer teaches a course on evidence-based practice and augmentative and alternative communication. While in South Africa, she plans to use the Fulbright experience to cultivate additional international research and service partnerships and opportunities.