Education
PHD LINGUISTICS | JUNE 2024 (EXPECTED) | UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
· ABD
· Concentration: Morphosyntax (coursework), Sociophonetics (research)
· Qualifying Paper: “Does Donald Trump really tawk the tawk? An acoustic analysis of Trump’s THOUGHT and BAT vowels”
· Dissertation: Working Title: US Politician’s Use of Vernacular, Standard and Superstandard
MA LINGUISTICS | AUGUST 2014 | WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
· Concentration: Morphology, Sociolinguistics
· Master’s Essay: “Reduplication in Spanish Affective Suffixes”
BA | AUGUST 2008 | CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, ANN ARBOR
· Major: Religious Studies, English
· Minor: Philosophy
· Senior Thesis: “The Religion of Salman Rushdie’s Novels”
Skills & Abilities
TECHNICAL ABILITY
· Skills for any operating system and across all major digital and social media platforms.
· Have worked extensively in Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, Google and WordPress.
· Experience with specialized statistical and database software.
ORGANIZATION
· Great attention to detail.
· Superior organization and management skills including the creation of numerous corpora and databases in both my academic and professional experiences.
INQUISITIVE BRAIN
· Never-ending willingness to learn.
· Ability to say ‘I don’t know’ (and then learn/research the thing I don’t know).
COMMUNICATION AND FACILITATION
· Excellent ability to speak to large groups or one-on-one.
· Adept at creating and giving presentations.
· I have successfully facilitated meetings between the faculty and students in my department and am a point of contact for communication between both.
RESEARCH
· PhD candidate with a research masters, skilled in utilizing both corpus data, as well as survey and computational methods.
· Excellent ability to use any and all resources available to find what I’m looking for (and more).
Experience
VICE PRESIDENT | UB GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION | JUNE 2021 - PRESENT
· Member of the Executive Committee. Major responsibilities include: managing student clubs, managing the student and professional staff of the GSA and the overall management of the corporation alongside the President and Treasurer.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT | UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO | AUGUST 2020 – PRESENT
· Researcher for Colleen Balukas in the Romance Languages and Literature department at UB
· Primary research focuses on Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole language spoken in Colombia.
PRESIDENT | SUB-BOARD I, INC | MAY 2017 – PRESENT
· Head of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization providing services to students, including an office-campus housing database, legal counsel and a programming grant.
MARK DIAMOND RESEARCH FUND DIRECTOR | UB GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION | AUGUST 2016 – MAY 2021
· Manage research fund for graduate students under the Graduate Student Association.
· Major responsibilities include being a point of contact for grant recipients, working with applicants to strengthen applications and working with the e-board to manage a yearly budget.
INSTRUCTOR | UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO AND UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS | JANUARY 2017 – MAY 2020
· Courses taught at UB: LIN 207: Language, Society and the Individual; LIN 301: The Sound System of English; LIN 315: Language In Its Social Setting
· Courses taught at UR: LIN 110: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
· Primary responsibilities included creating the courses’ structure(s); lecturing; creating and grading assignments and papers; and meeting with students as necessary.
SCIENCE TEACHER | AMERICORPS, DELAVAN GRIDER COMMUNITY CENTER | JUNE 2015 – AUGUST 2015
· Designed and taught 8 weeks of science lessons to summer day camp attendees, ages 3-13 years.
· Received accolades from the center, the parents of the students I worked with and AmeriCorps.
SCIENCEWORKS AND HEALING THROUGH HANDS-ON SCIENCE PROGRAM COORDINATOR | ANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM | MARCH 2011 – AUGUST 2014
· Managed a group of informal educators to teach 30- and 50-minute science labs to visiting school groups, as well as a grant-funded science activity and education program with Mott Children’s Hospital.
· After the initial grant period of one year—and a presentation I gave to the awarding foundation—the grant was renewed for five more years.
· I was also a part of the team that presented this collaborative work at the annual Association of Science and Technology Centers conference.
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