Brielle C. Stark, PhD {she/her/hers}, is an Assistant Professor in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Department and Program in Neuroscience faculty at Indiana University. Dr. Stark completed her doctoral research in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge (UK) as a Gates Cambridge Trust Scholar. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery. She is a proud alumna of Bryn Mawr College. She was honored with the 2021 IU Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Center for Women & Technology and the 2021 IU Trustees Teaching Award. In 2021, she was named one of four Distinguished Aphasia Scholars USA, a national award given by the Tavistock Trust UK. She is extremely interested in language and language recovery in aphasia, neurobiology of language, inner speech, and gesture as a part of multimodal communication in brain injury. She is the co-founder of FOQUSAphasia, an international working group with goals to improve how spoken discourse is collected, analyzed, and reported on, in aphasia.