Sharynne McLeod is a Distinguished Professor at Charles Sturt University, specializing in children's speech and language acquisition. She has a legacy of leading interdisciplinary teams that undertake impactful and international research into multilingual children's speech, and her transformative work has reframed the speech-language pathology profession by foregrounding communication rights and social justice. She has received Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia, and is President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. Her many publications include Introduction to Speech, Language, and Literacy (co-edited with Jane McCormack; OUP, 2015) and Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children (2nd ed., co-edited with A. Lynn Williams and Rebecca J. McCauley; Brookes Publishing, 2021).