Staff Spotlight - Rebekah Cunningham, Ph. D.

 

Rebekah Cunningham, Ph.D.

Please join us in welcoming our newest team member! 

Rebekah has been a contractor for the Center’s Deaf Education program since August 2021. She is from Indiana but spent more than a decade in Arizona before moving back to the Hoosier State in 2014. She received her doctorate in Audiology from the University of Cincinnati and her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University and Purdue University, respectively. Cunningham has worked in many different professional settings, including hospitals, industry, and academia. She currently teaches doctor of audiology (Au.D.) students through A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona. She was formerly the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program director for the state of Indiana. Her passions have always been working with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and mentoring the next generation of audiologists. She is actively involved in the American Academy of Audiology, serving on multiple task forces and committees, as well as chairing the convention and the board of directors.

FUN FACTS:

• Rebekah and her husband Bob have four children.
• Rebekah volunteers at the Humane Society of Hamilton County. She has three dogs and four cats (which may constitute an occupational hazard).
• She loves to sew and quilt.
• Rebekah loves cows, and her kitchen is cow-themed.
• Rebekah once sang the National Anthem at a Cincinnati Reds game.