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I am a researcher, writer, and editor with ten years of experience working in higher education. I am passionate about collaborating with clients to produce high-impact research reports and grant applications that further organizational missions and quantify impact. I am dedicated to exceptional collaboration, organization, and relationship-building.
I was formerly a Research Scientist at Cascade Reading, where I assisted in designing studies that examined the benefits of augmented (cascaded) text for reading comprehension. I have formal training in experimental linguistics and teaching English to speakers of other languages. My areas of research specialization include linguistic theory, language processing in aphasia, language processing across the lifespan, bi- and multilingualism, and second language reading and writing. I received post-doctoral training as a research fellow in the Aphasia Research Laboratory at Purdue University under the direction of Dr. Jiyeon Lee. I completed a PhD in Linguistics at Purdue University in May of 2021. My dissertation examined the effect of discourse-contextual variables on language processing by monolingual and bilingual English speakers during reading. As a PhD student I was a member of the Purdue Experimental Linguistics Lab led by Dr. Elaine J. Francis. I completed an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in 2016. My master's thesis examined writing center consultants patterns of response during online sessions. My thesis supervisor was Dr. Tracy S. Davis. From 2013 to 2016, I worked as a Writing Center Consultant in the Central Michigan University Writing Center under the direction of Dr. Daniel Lawson. As a Graduate Assistant in the Writing Center from 2014-2016, I specialized in online writing center theory and praxis and conducting one-on-one sessions with non-native English writers. |