Dr. Shirley Huang (she/her) is a SRCD Federal Executive Branch Fellow in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Shirley is eager to review research portfolios and grant proposals, develop child research agendas, and understand the roles and responsibilities of a grant program officer. Shirley completed her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests are in bilingual language development, cultural-linguistic differences, and emotion language skills. Specifically, she studied how cultural and language differences influence emotion language development in bilingual children. Prior to her research, Shirley completed her clinical M.S. in speech-language pathology at Boston University. She worked with children with developmental disorders (e.g., dyslexia, Autism, Down Syndrome) and children and families from minority backgrounds. Her clinical experiences inspired her research and policy interests to advance health equity.