About

I graduated from Amherst College in 2014 with a B.A. in French. While at Amherst, I took linguistics courses at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. I then attended UC Berkeley, where I obtained my M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics, advised by Keith Johnson and Susanne Gahl. 

My academic research focused on code-switching, or the alternation between two languages during bilingual conversation. As a bilingual native speaker of English and 上海闲话 (Wu Chinese - Shanghai dialect) who code-switches daily, I have a personal and academic interest in the perception and production of code-switched speech. 

I also speak fluent French, conversational Mandarin Chinese, and beginner German. In my academic research, I primarily studied Mandarin-English bilingual speech, but I have experience working with the phonetics and phonology of Bantu languages as well, including Shona, Lulamogi, and Tswefap.  Additionally, I work with English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, and Korean as part of my internationalization and language expansion work at Meta.

When I am not working on language-related projects, I enjoy reading, drawing, linocut, pottery, crochet, pastry-hunting, and spoiling my cat.