Erin Picou is an associate professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She directs the Hearing and Affect Perception Interest (HAPI) laboratory, which focuses on listening effort and emotion perception for adults and school-aged children. She is also involved with teaching and mentoring clinical and research students. Erin is serving as Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Audiology and as section editor for Ear and Hearing.