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 program aims to articulate the relations among Black expressive practices, language ideologies, and the sociopolitical structures that regiment our everyday lives. 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 artificial intelligence.

I received my PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, where I was co-advised by Penny Eckert and Rob Podesva. At Stanford, I was a fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.