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.