Welcome and thank you for visiting my website! I’m a PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department at Stanford University advised by Penny Eckert and Rob Podesva. I am currently a dissertation fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford, and was previously a Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity emerging scholars fellow and a Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence fellow. 

As a sociolinguist, my research focuses on how we use language to lay claim to social and political ideologies. My dissertation 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 my previous research includes exploring linguistic bias toward African Americans in education and AI. 

I graduated from UC Davis in 2016, where I received the Chancellor’s Award for my honors thesis, Teachers' Language Attitudes toward AAVE in California Public Schools (advised by Robert Bayley)