Department service

Starting in my second year, I have been fortunate to serve on the Department's Climate Committee. The Climate Committee is a group of faculty and students charged with monitoring and, wherever possible, improving the department climate and issues with equity and inclusion. Projects of the Climate Committee have included surveys of graduate students, facilitating connections with campus resources, and 'climate conversations,' workshops to build best practices for dealing with climate-related issues. In both the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years, I also served as the graduate student representative to Linguistics faculty meetings.

I am currently serving on the executive committee of the 2020 Berkeley Linguistics Society Workshop: Phonological Representations. Invited speakers include Stephanie Shih, Katie Drager, and Bruce Hayes.

I designed and rendered the logos for both BLSes I've helped plan!

I also served on the Executive Committee for the 43rd annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, which was held in 2017. Our special sessions were Language Contact and Dynamics and Languages of North and Central America. Our invited speakers included Profs Norma Mendoza-Denton, Natalie Schilling, Keren Rice, Sally Thomason, and Omer Preminger. I suggested and spearheaded a new addition to BLS: a poster session especially for researchers who had not yet started graduate school.

During the Fall 2017 semester, I became co-organizer of the now defunct SocioPhonetics Research Exchange and Discussion group, under the mentorship of its co-founder Auburn Barron Lutzross. Now on hiatus, this group organized bi-monthly meetings around current work in Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Lab Phonology, Social Psychology, and related fields. Although the primary audience is Linguistics grad students, while I was organizing it, it was important to me that the space was open to everyone, from faculty to undergraduates, from any department. Members of this group also organized the Sociolinguistic Cognition symposium at the 2018 LSA meeting, featuring talks from Cynthia G Clopper, Molly Babel, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler and Madeleine Jean, Meghan Sumner, and Keith Johnson and Erik Tracy.

Outside of the Linguistics Department, the Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq) on campus is an important community to me, and I love to spend time and volunteer there.