Before attending UCSC, I spent a year at the University of Maryland Department of Linguistics, where I was Colin Phillips' lab manager at the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab. During this time, I worked with Colin and colleagues on illusions of grammaticality - specifically negative polarity illusions (with Hanna Muller and collaborators) and agreement attraction (with Maggie Kandel & Cassidy Wyatt).
Prior to that, I completed my undergraduate degree in Linguistics with a specialization in Computing at UCLA, where I worked on syntactic prediction and implicit prosody as a research assistant in Jesse Harris' Language Processing Lab and on the neurogenetics of vocal communication in zebra and Bengalese finches in Stephanie White's birdsong lab.
Some of my non-linguistic pastimes include playing music, enjoying the Santa Cruz scenery, and spending time with my cats, 