about

To me, science is mentorship.

I've been privileged to experience several wonderful scholars' investments, and my scientific lens is as much a product of their wisdom and prompting as it is formed around my own desire to mentor future scholars.

• Currently, I'm "discovering how minds and brains create language" as a post-baccalaureate research assistant in Evelina Fedorenko's language lab at MIT. I've been working with Agata Wolna, using fMRI and other techniques to explore the neural signatures of language processing, including the broader language network and how monolinguals and bilinguals differ in production and comprehension.
  • Simultaneously, I've been in collaboration with Yi Yang Teoh in Oriel FeldmanHall's lab at Brown, thinking about individual differences in emotion semantics and their implications for behavioral wellbeing and decision making.
• Previously, I received my B.S. from Gordon College, where Dr. Susan Bobb transformed my distinct appreciations for linguistic structure and the human mind into a unified love of language in the bilingual brain. Dr. Peter Iltis also fostered these passions by taking me on as a research assistant working with real-time MRI and acoustic data from brass instrumentalists.
  • During my undergraduate years, I also worked as a neuropsychology research assistant at the Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program. Guidance from Julie Joyce and Emma Muller revealed to me the joy and importance of doing science with and for one's community.