As an undergraduate double majoring in Spanish and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I spent the academic terms cultivating a passion for Spanish linguistics, while my summers were spent interning with the National Park Service (as a Bilingual Water Safety Intern in New Jersey, and as a Resource Management Intern in Tennessee as well as in Maryland). However, studying abroad in Lisbon, Portugal and Alcalá de Henares, Spain solidified my resolute captivation with languages and set me on my current trajectory. After graduating with my B.S., I moved to Austin, TX to serve as an AmeriCorps member with the organization Literacy First. I worked as a Bilingual Early Literacy Tutor at a local elementary school providing intervention tutoring in Spanish for K-2nd grade students. During this time I also helped teach STEM summer school classes and volunteered as a Teaching Assistant at community ESL classes. These experiences reaffirmed my commitment to teaching and researching linguistics and I returned to the midwest to join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where I earned my M.A. (2018) and Ph.D. (2024). I am currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO.

I have presented my research on areas of theoretical syntax and morphology at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, the Chicago Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Western Conference on Linguistics, Going Romance, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. My interest in indigenous languages lead me to study Quechua for four semesters at UIUC, for which I held a FLAS fellowship as well. I have experience teaching many undergraduate courses ranging from Elementary Spanish to upper-division Spanish linguistics, syntax, and phonology courses.