About Me

From Boston to Philly

I was born and raised in Boston, MA and the Mattapan neighborhood, specifically. Growing up in the city, you become exposed to a number of different languages, dialects, and cultures; this cultural and linguistic diversity planted the early question of how we can speak the same languages and understand each other while still maintaining sociocultural boundaries and structures. I started at Harvard in 2019 and initially majored in psychology with a linguistics minor, before switching the order and majoring in linguistics with a cognitive science focus and psychology minor. After graduating in 2023, I began my Ph.D. at UPenn in linguistics, focusing on socio-semantic processing.

Ph.D. student by day…

I’m currently a third-year Ph.D. student at UPenn, advised by Dr. Meredith Tamminga and Dr. Florian Schwarz. My research focuses on the ways in which social information like race and personae interact to influence pragmatic processing. This is me presenting some recent work on this with Andrea Beltrama at NWAV 53 in Ann Arbor, MI!

…Bunny mom by night!

I have two beautiful baby bunnies: Sugar (2) and Peppercorn (1.5) (top left). My first bunny and Sugar’s bondmate, Frostbite (bottom right with Sugar) was actually my first pet! She passed at the age of 7 and lived a very full life on two university campuses and all the way through quarantine! Rabbits are amazing pets. 10/10 would recommend. They’re soft, quiet, and often like to be left alone, but they do show affection in little ways! They’re not quite as touchy as cats, but they do have similar attitudes. They will, however, eat you out of house and home. I spend so much money on hay.