Sarah Kervin is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, music educator, bandleader, voice-specialized speech-language pathologist, researcher, and corgi enthusiast.

Originally hailing from Atlanta, GA, Sarah began her career as a working musician. She studied jazz saxophone and voice at the University of South Carolina and received a master's degree in jazz studies from the University of North Texas before moving to New York, where she worked as a recording artist, bandleader, and pop singer-songwriter. Sarah served as an Assistant Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music for almost a decade, where she created a specialized education and "vocal triage" program to facilitate early intervention for young performers with voice problems.

Following a vocal injury of her own, Sarah went back to school and received her master's degree in speech-language pathology from New York University. She practiced in New York City as a voice-specialized speech-language pathologist at the Grabscheid Voice and Swallowing Center of Mount Sinai and the Sean Parker Institute for the Voice at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her clinical interests focus on voice and upper airway disorders, specifically rehabilitating performers and providing gender-affirming voice care.

Sarah is also engaged in improving our understanding of the voice through research, including projects focused on the effects of the hormones on the voice, the use of vocal distortion in rehabilitation, clinical terminology use, and improving clinical voice diagnostics. Her most recent project–a longitudinal acoustic study looking at the effects of the menstrual cycle on the voice–is generously funded by the New York Eye and Ear Foundation. Sarah is currently pursuing her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at New York University and works as a clinical research coordinator at NYU Langone Voice & Swallowing Center in Dr. Aaron Johnson’s Lab.

In addition to her clinical and research activities, Sarah remains an active musician and performer throughout NYC.