I finished my PhD in Psychology in 2023, where my training focused on quantitative methods, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics. My dissertation investigated how people learn to use singular they pronouns and what kinds of contexts support learning. More broadly, I’m interested in questions about people’s learning and behavior, and in figuring out if systems and policies are working in the way we intend.
After grad school, I spent about a year freelancing as a statistical consultant, statistical programmer, data scientist, and ggplot wizard for hire. I now work at Apple as an Annotation Project Lead, where I design evaluation datasets for Siri.
Elsewhere
Education
Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences | Vanderbilt University
2018–2023 Nashville, TN
Working in the Conversation Lab with Sarah Brown-Schmidt
B.S. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences | University of Rochester
2014–2018 Rochester, NY
Working in the Kinder Lab with Chigusa Kurumada
Research Interests
- language processing
- memory for language
- pronouns & reference
- singular they
- gender bias in language
- psycholinguistics-sociolinguistics interface
Skills
- statistical analysis, particularly multilevel/mixed-effects modeling and logistic regression
- statistical programming in R; translating out of SPSS,
SAS, and STATA - data wrangling and visualization in R and Python
- reproducible analysis using Quarto and R Markdown
- working with behavioral, survey, audio, and eyetracking data
- experiment coding in Python, PCIbex, and MATLAB
