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  • PLC49 2025

    Philadelphia, PA (University of Pennsylvania): April 2025 I presented a paper at the 49th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC49). At this conference, I shared early findings from my second qualifying paper, exploring how people use both visual and linguistic cues to form impressions to form impressions of pop singers and their…

  • NWAV 2024

    Miami, FL (Florida International University): October 2024 I presented a project launch proposal at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV52). In this proposal, I explored how media engagement may or may not influence the way we use language, and I also shared potential methods, a rough timeline, and anticipated challenges…

  • WSS11 2024

    Buffalo, NY (University at Buffalo): April 2024 I presented a paper about how commenters construct and negotiate the meanings of voseo (a Spanish second personal singular pronoun) on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube at the 11th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS11).

  • OSUCHiLL 2024

    Columbus, OH (The Ohio State University): March 2024 I presented a paper about how commenters construct and negotiate the meanings of voseo (a Spanish second personal singular pronoun) on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube at The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 2024.

  • LSA 2023

    Denver, CO: January 2023 I presented a poster on Justin Bieber’s adoption of black identity features at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)’s 97th Annual Meeting.

  • NWAV 2022

    Stanford, CA (Stanford University): October, 2022 I virtually presented my paper on Justin Bieber’s adoption of black identity features at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV50).

  • Starting my Ph.D. at Georgetown

    Washington D.C.: August 2022 I started the Sociolinguistics Ph.D. program at Georgetown! 🎉

  • LSA 2022

    Washington D.C.: January 2022 I presented my poster on Dora’s identity-based switches between Spanish and English phonology at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)’s 96th annual meeting. (Little did I know I would end up moving to D.C. that year for a grad program!)

  • USC Graduation

    Los Angeles, CA: January 2019 – July 2022 I graduated with a double major in linguistics and Spanish at the University of Southern California, and fell in love with hiking up mountains and beaches and year-round warm weather!