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Hello!
I'm a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. I'm also affiliated with the Berkeley Armenian Studies Program and enrolled in the Designated Emphasis in Language Revitalization. For the 2025-2026 Academic Year, I am working for the GSI Teaching and Resource Center as a Teaching Consultant, helping Graduate Student Instructors to improve their teaching.
My primary research areas are sociolinguistics, phonetics, and community-engaged scholarship, including exploring how universities can connect with local speech communities for mutual benefit. My research generally involves a combination of fieldwork and quantitative/computational methods, and I work mainly with Armenian, (Inland North) English, and West African Languages.
I am the founder and director of the Armenian Language in the Bay Area (ALBA) project – check it out here!
Before graduate school, I worked for two years at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) as a research assistant, where I contributed to the ASHA Evidence Maps.
I have an M.A. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, and a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Rochester; a Campus Times article reported on my undergraduate research.
Outside of linguistics, my favorite activities these days are hiking, social dancing (swing and contra dance in particular), and playing with my cat Hestia.
I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, and study on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people.
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