I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and Director of Lives in Translation (LiT), the Translation and Interpreting program at Rutgers University in Newark. Through LiT, I coordinate community-based initiatives centered on critical civil engagement and teach translation and interpreting students through experiential learning to prepare for nationally recognized certifications.
I am a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.
I enjoy traveling, hiking, boxing, cooking my family’s recipes,and delving into a good book.
Research Interests
- Translation Technologies
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Morphosyntactic Transfer and Processing
- Second Language Acquisition
- Bilingualism
- Language Brokering
Education
Ph.D. in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition (Expected 2026)
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
MA in Translation and Interpreting (2015)
Rutgers University
BA in Spanish and History (2013)
Rutgers University