Trinidad, CA
 Having fun discussing my research
I grew up under the Redwoods in the beautiful seaside town of Trinidad on Yurok ancestral territory. Northern California is known for its linguistic diversity, and it was here, from my Hupa calculus teacher, where I first witnessed the sorrow of language endangerment. I moved to DC, where, besides meeting the love of my life, and studying French, Arabic and Russian literature, I saw my first snowflake at the age of 19. I liked the snow so much that I studied abroad in Russia, land of everything I love: the short (and long) story, the ballet and, of course, plenty of languages. I caught the fieldwork bug from Nick Evans during a Field Methods course on the Idi language in 2011 and after spending another year in Russia doing fieldwork on Chuvash, I switched research locations to southern New Guinea. My dissertation focused on several phonological aspects of the Ende language. Now, at Boston University, my work focuses on language diversity and what lesser-known languages can tell us about theoretical linguistics.
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