I am a Departmental Scholar at UCLA in the Department of Linguistics, pursuing my MA and BA through UCLA's Departmental Scholars Program (DSP). My research interests include sign language phonology, sociolinguistics, and language documentation. My current research focuses on phonological compound reduction in American Sign Language and sociolinguistic style-shifting between American Sign Language (ASL) and Signed Exact English (SEE) in Deaf signers. 

I currently work part-time in the UCLA Linguistics Department as an Academic Peer Advisor for 650+ linguistics majors in our undergraduate program.

Outside of linguistics, I am passionate about student affairs, mental health, disability, and neurodiversity. I am on UCLA's Bruin Mental Health Advisory Committee, an Executive Board Member for Hands On (ASL Club), and a coordinator for Disabled Student Union and Bruin Neurodiversity Collective.

I was also the president (2021-2023) of Bruin Linguists Society (BLing), UCLA's linguistics student organization that aims to help promote the field of linguistics and encourage undergraduate involvement in academia and linguistics-related career development and application.  As a part of BLing, I served as the chair of the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (2022, 2023).

In my free time, I like to paint, draw, write, play board and video games, and make arts and crafts, origami, and candles.