About Me

Interests

I am a clinician and researcher who is passionate about helping individuals with acquired neurological disorders improve their day-to-day lives and long-term outcomes. I collaborate with individuals and their loved ones to develop goals they care about, improving cognitive and communication skills to increase access to life participation.

I have seven years of experience in clinical research, with four of those years specifically dedicated to primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and other neurodegenerative syndromes (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome). I have five years of experience as a clinician. My clinical and research focuses are primarily in supporting people with aphasia, PPA, Parkinson's disease, and atypical Parkinson's diseases.

I care deeply about increasing access to and quality of clinical care for individuals from historically, economically, and socially marginalized groups and otherwise underserved populations. I volunteer with the National Aphasia Association to co-run a PPA care partner support group, and I engage in advocacy work wherever I can.

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Education

I received my undergraduate degree (B.S.) in Cognitive Science with specialization in neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego in 2017.

I went on to complete my master's degree (M.S.) in Speech-Language Pathology from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 2020.

I am presently pursuing my doctoral degree (PhD) in Language and Communicative Disorders from San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego.

Research Experience

I completed my master's thesis on auditory-perceptual ratings of connected speech in aphasia in Dr. Stephen M. Wilson's Language Neuroscience Laboratory at Vanderbilt. I worked briefly with Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program (ICAP) data in Dr. Elizabeth Galletta's Neurolinguistics and Neurorehabilitation Lab at NYU during my graduate clinical externship.

I then worked at the University of California, San Francisco's Memory and Aging Center for about four years, where I contributed to research on primary progressive aphasia and other neurodegenerative syndromes. I supported observational research in Dr. Marilu Gorno Tempini's ALBA Lab and treatment research in Dr. Maya Henry's ARTlab.

Now, I am a doctoral student working with Dr. Seana Coulson and Dr. Stephanie Ries, and I am using electrophysiological measures to investigate neural functioning in people with post-stroke aphasia and Alzheimer's disease.