About Me

I am a PhD student in Linguistics at Stanford University, advised by Dan Jurafsky and Rob Podesva. I am broadly interested in sociolinguistics and computational linguistics, in addition to psycholinguistics and phonetics. My research is supported by grants and fellowships from institutions such as the National Science Foundation, Stanford Vice Provost’s Office for Graduate Education, the Linguistics Society of America, and most recently, the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and the McCoy Center for Family Ethics in Society. Prior to Stanford, I was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at Pomona College, where I earned a B.A in Cognitive Science.

I am deeply interested in the intersection of language, identity, and societal dynamics. My research has examined diasporic realizations of Blackness, empowered student speakers of stigmatized linguistic varieties, and explored how subtle linguistic cues influence generative AI models’ interpretations of blame and responsibility, particularly in headlines about police homicides.

My dissertation investigates how linguistic features in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) influence perceptions of respect in police-driver interactions, integrating insights from sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing. Additionally, I explore how multimodal AI systems conceptualize race and gender, examining whether linguistic inputs reinforce discrete or stereotyped representations in vision models.

Outside of the Linguistics Department, I am a member of Dr. Anne Charity Hudley’s BAD Lab, and have served as a graduate student assistant to her joint-project with Dr. Hannah Franz. I am also a member of Stanford’s NLP group.