Dr. Dam graduated from the Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include bilingual language development in typically developing children and children with speech and language impairments. Dr. Dam also completed a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She worked as a bilingual Vietnamese-English speech-language pathologist in Boston, MA before pursuing her PhD.