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2024 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon) Organizing Committee Member

I served on the organizing committee of the 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. 

2023-2024 Co-organizer of the Inaugural UIUC & UChicago Research Exchange (now the MidWest Syntax Exchange)

I coordinated with the University of Chicago's Morph-Syn organizer, Kutay Serova, to implement a research exchange between graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and those at the University of Chicago (UChicago). Students from UIUC are invited to present their work at Morph-Syn, and UChicago students are invited to present their work at claSSi. This group is now referred to as the MidWest Syntax Exchange, and now includes the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

2024 Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Meeting (ILLS) Committee Member

I served on the planning committee for the 16th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society. I also served as an abstract reviewer and plenary chair (Dr. Ruth Kramer).

LSA First Generation Access and Equity Committee Member (2021-now)

LSA Committee on LGBTQ+ [Z] Issues in Linguistics Member (2021-now)

2022 Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Meeting (ILLS) Committee Co-chair

I served as the Co-chair for the planning committee of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society.

2021 16th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (Organizing Assistant).

I served as the assistant to the organizer of the 16th Annual Meeting of the SLS (to Dr. Aida Talić) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2021 Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Meeting (ILLS) & Sociolinguistics Symposium (SoSy) Committee Member

I served on the planning committee for the 13th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society as well as the 3rd Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium.  I also served as an abstract reviewer and plenary chair (Dr. Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada).

2020-2021 Linguistics Student Organization President (University of Illinois)

From Fall 2020 - Spring 2021, I am serving as the the President of the University of Illinois' Linguistics Student Organization. I am the student - faculty liaison and in charge of specific programming/events for the department. 

2020 LSA Lead Summer Intern:

This summer, I served as the LSA lead intern. A lot of the work I did was centered on public policy and resources for student members. Linked below are some of my projects/contributions.

• LSA Campaign In Support of a Federally Funded Native American Language Resource Center.

• Applying to Graduate School FAQ

Additionally, the University of Illinois School of Literature, Culture, and Linguistics did a short write-up about my internship in their September 2020 E-Newsletter.

2015-2016 Linguistics Student Association President (Southern Illinois University)

From Fall 2015-Spring 2021, I served as the President of Southern Illinois University's Linguistics Student Association. I acted as the student - faculty liaison and planned  events centered on social activities, professional development, and academic lectures/talks.

2017-2018 Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts Volunteer Literacy Tutor

I volunteered as a one-on-one tutor for a basic literacy student at the Boston affiliate of Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts.

2016-2017 AmeriCorps VISTA Program

I served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member from November 2016 - November 2017. The goal of AmeriCorps VISTA is to fight against poverty by helping local organizations expand their capacity to make change. I served at the Hernández (bilingual) After School Program (HASP) in Roxbury, Massachusetts.