Willa is a speech-language pathologist at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in the ALBA Language Neurobiology Lab. Willa has a BA degree in Psychology from Lewis & Clark College and an MA degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Texas at Austin. She conducts diagnostic speech and language assessments for research participants at the ALBA Lab, and she also provides speech and language therapy for patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) in collaboration with the Aphasia Research and Treatment Lab (ARTLab) at the University of Texas at Austin.