I am the Curriculum Development Officer at the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin, Germany. I design and deliver training on best practices in Language Documentation, and curate and maintain the Language Documentation training resources at the Endangered Languages Archive.
Prior to joining ELDP, I was a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Since 2013, I have coordinated and led the Yaminawa Language Documentation Project, which seeks to understand dialectal variation among four endangered languages in the Yaminawa Dialect Complex. My interests include language documentation and description, Amazonian linguistics, anthropological linguistics, and the social dimensions of language use.
I did my PhD in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. My dissertation focused on the phonetic, morphosyntactic, and social features of linguistic affect in Yaminahua and Nahua (Yora), two Panoan language varieties of Peruvian Amazonia. I have carried out fieldwork in Peru on Yaminahua and Nahua since 2013. I have also worked on Maij+ki (Western Tucanoan, Peru), Hup (Nadahup, Brazil), and Sereer (Niger-Congo, Senegal and The Gambia).