I am a first-year PhD student in Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. I work with Dr. Marisa Casillas at the Chatter Lab.

Previously, I received my BA in Linguistics and Computer Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where I worked with Dr. Delphine Dahan to study how communicative goals drive the interpretation of utterances in everyday conversation.

My research focuses on the cross-cultural development of socio-pragmatic reasoning in the context of naturalistic language production and comprehension. That is, I’m interested in how children across cultures learn to use and interpret language in everyday interactions—and what this reveals about the co-development of linguistic and social reasoning.