2025 - Present
University of Michigan
Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics
Advisor: Jessi Grieser
Awards: Rackham Merit Fellowship
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2021 - 2025
Pomona College
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics
Major in Linguistics, Minor in Anthropology
Overall GPA: 3.91 | Major GPA: 3.95
Thesis: Code-Switching and Final Consonant Cluster Reduction Among African American Philadelphia High School Students: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Awards: Phi Beta Kappa | Honors in Linguistics | Pomona College Scholar
Community-Based Sociolinguistics: Data Collection in School and Neighborhood Settings
LSA Summer Institute | Eugene, OR | 08/2025
Co-organized workshop for Nicole Holliday and Sabriya Fisher
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Code-Switching and Final Consonant Cluster Reduction Among African American Philadelphia High School Students: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Pomona College | Claremont, CA | 12/2025
Senior Capstone Research Presentation
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Quantifying Features at Different Levels of Variation: The Language Practices of AAE-speaking High-Schoolers
American Dialect Society (ADS) | New York, NY | 01/2024
Co-Authors: Li-Fang Lai, Nicole Holliday
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Research and Internship Fall Symposium
Pomona College | Claremont, CA | 08/2023 , 08/2024
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) 2023
Intonation and its Interfaces NSF REU 2024; Primary authors: Byron Ahn, Nanette Veilleux, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel & Alejna Brugos
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Bridging Methods to Study Sociolectal Variation
LSA Summer Institute | Amherst, MA | 08/2023
Primary presenters: Nicole Holliday, Sabriya Fisher, Li-Fang Lai
Quantifying features at different levels of variation: The language practices and experience of discrimination of AAE-speaking high-schoolers
Forthcoming paper
Co-authors: Li-Fang Lai, Nicole Holliday
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Code-Switching and Final Consonant Cluster Reduction Among African American Philadelphia High School Students: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
12/2023
Senior Capstone Thesis Project, Pomona College
Teaching Assistant for Phonetics
01/2025 - 06/2025
Pomona College | Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department | Dr. Ernesto Gutiérrez Topete
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Teaching Assistant for Arabic Language Program
08/2023 - 05/2024
Claremont McKenna College | Modern Languages Department | Dr. Bassam Frangieh
English - Native speaker
Polish - Native speaker
Spanish - Advanced
French - Advanced
Italian - Intermediate
Modern Standard Arabic - Intermediate
Norwegian (Bokmål) - Beginner
Turkish - Beginner
Please see the document below for a full version of my CV, updated November 2025.