Kathy Pichora-Fuller is Professor Emerita (Psychology, University of Toronto) and Adjunct Professor (Gerontology, SFU). She translates research on auditory and cognitive aging to address the rehabilitative and communication accessibility needs of older adults. She is Past-President of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology, the audiology expert for the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging and Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging. Among numerous awards, she gave the 2025 Carhart Memorial Lecture for the American Auditory Society.