Welcome and thank you for visiting my website! I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a sociolinguist, my research focuses on how we use language to lay claim to social and political ideologies. My current project explores the role of respectability politics in language variation and change among African American women in Sacramento, California. I am also invested in understanding the consequences of linguistic bias, and another line of my research explores linguistic bias toward African Americans in education and AI. 

I received my PhD in Linguistics at Stanford University, co-advised by Penny Eckert and Rob Podesva. At Stanford, my research was supported with generous funding from several fellowships, including the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.