Hi! I'm a second-year master's student in Linguistics here at Eastern Michigan University. I actually came to linguistics via Ecology and English literature. Luckily, the analytical skills I learned in my undergraduate ecology classes actually have been handy.

Now that I've had some experience in the discipline, I find myself interested in many different areas of the discipline: morphology, phonetic analysis, language documentation, folk taxonomies, ethnobotany, ethnogeography and the role of technology in the discipline.

Like so many people here at LINGUIST, I do a wide variety of tasks. I'm on the LL-Map team, the Grant Writing team and I head up the Conference Organization Team. This past year I worked on the Cookbook redesign, our up-and-coming Student Portal, as well as a variety of graphic design projects (EasyAbs logo, the new Fun(d)Drive tote bags...), and various other projects.

In my spare time, I enjoy playing piano or trombone, knitting, painting, hiking, baking, gardening, and doing geeky things with friends like play readings, playing board games or video games.

If you're still curious, you can visit my website. It's a work in progress, but I'll be adding information as the semester continues.