DIVERSITY, 

EQUITY & 

INCLUSION

At the MPI, I am a member of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, as well as the Research Staff Committee.

Through these, I have (co-)organized the following workshops:

  • Pitching your research and yourself (November 2024)

  • The Other Side of the Table: Leadership workshop (October 2025)

  • Collaborating in Diverse Teams (November 2025)

I have additionally participated in the following trainings:

  • Implicit Bias (June 2024)

  • Creating an inclusive lab culture with a lab handbook (November 2023)

For our internship program, I developed an intern handbook and intern feedback form, to improve the integration and social safety of interns on our team.

OUTSIDE ACADEMIA

I was born in Ontario, Canada, but spent most of my childhood in the U.S. states of Texas and North Carolina. During my undergrad, I spent two formative semesters studying abroad in Freiburg, Germany—a city that quickly became a second home. I later returned to Freiburg and ended up living there for almost ten years and receiving my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Freiburg. In September 2023, I moved to Nijmegen. Since then, I have learned to bike through the rain with a smile on my face, and have greatly enjoyed the academic environment in one of the world’s leading hubs for psycholinguistic research

Outside of academia, I enjoy being creative: painting, carving linocut prints, throwing pottery on the wheel, or crocheting cute animals. I also play Clawhammer banjo, a musical connection to my North Carolina roots. I'm an avid reader, particularly of queer literature, and have a strong interest in LGBTQ+ history and advocacy.