Cooper Bedin
ph.d. candidate
ucsb department of linguistics
💬 [ˈkupɚ bɛˈdin] KOO-per beh-DEEN 🏳️⚧️ (they/she) 📧 cbedin (at) ucsb (dot) edu 💁♀️ drag insta 🔍 researchgate 📂 cv
Curriculum Vitae
Cooper Bedin (they/she)
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cbedin@ucsb.edu [cbedin.gay] (805) 893-7488 |
South Hall 3432 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100 |
Education and employment
Education
| Ph.D. in Linguistics (in progress) | University of California, Santa Barbara | Spring 2025–Present |
| M.A. in Linguistics | University of California, Santa Barbara | Fall 2022–Winter 2025 |
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B.A. in Linguistics B.A. in Computer Science Honors in Linguistics Phi Beta Kappa |
University of California, Berkeley | Fall 2018–Summer 2022 |
Other education experience
| Linguistic Institute |
Linguistic Society of America University of Oregon |
July 2025 |
| Summer Teaching Institute for Associates (STIA) | University of California, Santa Barbara | May–June 2025 |
| Lavender Languages Institute (LLI) | California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) | June 2024 |
| Linguistic Institute |
Linguistic Society of America University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
June 2023–July 2023 |
Other employment experience
| Graduate Assistant |
Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (RCSGD) University of California, Santa Barbara |
September 2026–Present |
Fellowships and awards
Fellowships
| Graduate Research Fellowship | National Science Foundation | 2023 |
| Regents Fellowship in Linguistics | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2022 |
Awards, honors, and grants
| Royalty of Pride |
Pacific Pride Foundation Santa Barbara, CA |
August 2026 |
| LingComm Grant | LingComm: Communicating Linguistics to Broader Audiences | May 2026 |
| Graduate Collaborative Award Marat Zheng, Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Ryan Ka Yau Lai, Munira Kairat, and Nurgul Isik |
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center University of California, Santa Barbara |
February 2025 |
| Department Service Award |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley |
May 2022 |
| Outstanding GSI Award |
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley |
May 2022 |
| Linguistics Honors Program |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley |
May 2022 |
| Phi Beta Kappa | Phi Beta Kappa | May 2022 |
| Linguistics Enrichment Experience Program (LEEP) |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley |
May 2022 |
| Dean's Honors List: High Distinction in General Scholarship |
College of Letters and Sciences University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2021 |
Competitions
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First place - Three-Minute Thesis Presentation title: "Perception and Queer Speech: Beyond the 'Gay Accent'" |
Linguistic Institute - Linguistic Society of America (LSA) University of Oregon |
July 2025 |
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Runner-up - Grad Slam, Humanities & Fine Arts Division Presentation title: "Perception and Queer Speech: Beyond the 'Gay Accent'" [vimeo.com/924279645] (password: GradSlam2024) |
Graduate Division University of California, Santa Barbara |
March 2024 |
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Second place - QWER Hacks, Track 2: Housing Access Cooper Bedin, Cedar Brown, Richard Khillah, and Gabriel Sanchez |
Major League Hacking (MLH) University of California, Los Angeles |
January 2023 |
Research, presentations, and publications
M.A. thesis
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"A tale of two pronouns": Race, place, gender, and the indexical tangle of you guys and y'all Committee chair: Lal Zimman, Ph.D. Committee members: Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D.; Simon Todd, Ph.D. [proquest.com/docview/3198955787] |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
March 2025 |
B.A. honors thesis
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A computational approach to acoustic analysis of queer speech Advisor: Keith Johnson, Ph.D. Second Reader: Mel Chen, Ph.D. [lx.berkeley.edu/publications/computational-approach-acoustic-analysis-queer-speech] |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley |
May 2022 |
Articles and book chapters
| "A tale of two pronouns": Race, place, gender, and the indexical tangle of you guys and y'all | In preparation | |
| Towards a trans quantiative linguistics: Umbrella terms, comprehensive categories, and trans self-definition | In preparation | |
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The Teeth Cooper Bedin and Marissa Morgan |
Parsing the Body Edited by Montreal Benesch, Mary Bucholtz, Kendra Calhoun, and Kira Hall |
Under review |
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Participant-driven methods for operationalizing gender: Emic, ethical, and empirical approaches Lal Zimman, Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, and Marina Zhukova |
Language in Society | Forthcoming |
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"Carrie's Fables" or: How I learned to stop misgendering and love trans people Cooper Bedin and Montreal Benesch |
Sex Change & the City Girl Dad Press Edited by Niko Stratis and Tuck Woodstock [girldadpress.com/scatc] |
2025 |
Proceedings publications
| Representing gender identification in a trans corpus: Umbrella terms, comprehensive categories, and trans self-definition | Penn Working Papers in Linguistics Selected papers from NWAV 53 |
Forthcoming |
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Telling a (racio)gender: Morphosyntactic variation and identity attribution in transgender English/Spanish speakers' Pear Stories Dozandri Mendoza, Lal Zimman, Cooper Bedin, Nicky Macias, Kris Ali, and Cedar Brown [repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/62204] |
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics Selected papers from NWAV 52 |
2025 |
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Current norms and best practices for collecting and representing sex/gender in linguistics: Towards ethical and inclusive methodologies Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Marina Zhukova, and Lal Zimman [doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5668] |
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) | 2024 |
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Towards a model of the listener in perception of queer speech [internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2023/full_papers/399.pdf] |
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) | 2023 |
Web publications
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You guys, y'all, and queer and trans language [lsadc.org/af_membercommittee.asp?committeeid=14&sp=40] |
Committee on LGBTQ+[Z] Issues in Linguistics (COZIL) Linguistic Society of America (LSA) |
2024 |
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Gendered lexicon of Mandarin Chinese Chelsea Tang, Xuedi Yang, Irene Yi, and Cooper Bedin (PI: Ben Papadopoulos, M.A.) [genderinlanguage.com/mandarin] |
Gender in Language Project Berkeley, CA |
2022 |
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Inclusive partial grammar of English Ben Papadopoulos, Cooper Bedin, Sebastian Clendenning-Jiménez, Julie Duran, and Zaphiel Kiriko Miller (PI: Ben Papadopoulos, M.A.) [genderinlanguage.com/english] |
Gender in Language Project Berkeley, CA |
2022 |
Media profiles
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Meta censors accounts of Santa Barbara drag queens, ICE Observers: BARBARA’s Instagram account deactivated, SBResiste’s ability to live stream revoked after unspecified violations By Christina McDermott [independent.com/2026/08/12/meta-censors-accounts-of-santa-barbara-drag-queens-ice-observers/] |
Santa Barbara Independent Santa Barbara, CA |
August 2026 |
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Behind the scenes with the queens of BARBARA: Santa Barbara drag queens talk supporting queer arts and hosting their own local show By Maya Johnson [independent.com/multimedia/behind-the-scenes-with-the-queens-of-barbara/] |
Santa Barbara Independent Santa Barbara, CA |
June 2026 |
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Celebrating the queens and kings of Santa Barbara: From wildcat to EOS to trivia nights, here’s the tea on the drag scene By Christina McDermott [independent.com/2026/06/03/celebrating-the-queens-and-kings-of-santa-barbara/] |
Santa Barbara Independent Santa Barbara, CA |
June 2026 |
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The queens of BARBARA: Monthly drag show at EOS lounge is a silly, sexy good time By Christina McDermott [independent.com/2025/11/11/the-queens-of-barbara/] |
Santa Barbara Independent Santa Barbara, CA |
November 2025 |
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UCSB Drag Club brings community, glamor to campus Michelle Cisneros [dailynexus.com/2025-03-07/ucsb-drag-club-brings-community-glamor-to-campus/] |
Daily Nexus Santa Barbara, CA |
March 2025 |
Invited presentations
| Towards a trans quantitative linguistics: Why new categories aren’t enough |
Sociolunch Stanford University |
February 2026 |
| Power, politics, and nonbinary identity in trans talk |
Language Interaction and Social Organiation (LISO) University of California, Santa Barbara |
March 2025 |
| Towards participant-driven analyses in sociolinguistic studies of gender and sexuality |
Phonetics, Phonology and Psycholinguistics Forum (Phorum) University of California, Berkeley |
March 2025 |
| Operationalizing gender: Towards participant-driven quantitative methods in linguistics |
Department of Linguistics Graduate Student Open House Colloquium University of California, Santa Barbara |
February 2024 |
| Commencement speaker |
Department of Linguistics Commencement Ceremony University of California, Berkeley |
May 2022 |
Conference presentations
| Mar-a-Lago Face: Embodied femininity, conservative politics, and the fake face |
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2027 San Francisco Marriott Marquis |
January 2027 |
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Perception of ‘you guys’ and ‘y’all’ under sociopolitical priming Cooper Bedin, Jinglin Yang, and Xander Love |
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2027 San Francisco Marriott Marquis |
January 2027 |
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What makes a gender “boring?”: Interactional organization of gender self-identification on the podcast Gender Reveal Cooper Bedin, Camille Browder, Zoë McAnerney, Jayden Okumura, Joanie Rosas Garcia, Alli Saona, and Zoey Tran |
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2027 San Francisco Marriott Marquis |
January 2027 |
| Towards a trans quantitative linguistics: Why new categories aren’t enough |
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 53 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
November 2025 |
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Expansive, intersectional... and quantitative?? Innovating critical approaches to gendered sociophonetic variation Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Lal Zimman, and Marina Zhukova |
International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) 13 Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación & Universidad de la República |
July 2025 |
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Telling a (racio)gender: Morphosyntactic variation and identity attribution in transgender English/Spanish speakers' 'Pear Stories' Dozandri Mendoza, Lal Zimman, Cooper Bedin, Nicky Macias, Kris Ali, and Cedar Brown |
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 52 Florida International University and the University of Miami |
November 2024 |
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"Questions that people are afraid to ask out loud": Fear vs. Self-Determination in Anglophone and Russophone Pronoun Discourses Marina Zhukova and Cooper Bedin |
"What are your pronouns? And why does it matter?" Université Paul-Valéry |
October 2024 |
| "On forms I always click non-binary": Competing ideologies of (il)legibility in 'non-binary' self-identification |
Lavender Languages and Linguistics (LavLang) 30 University of Brighton |
August 2024 |
| Variation and perception of queer speech: A hierarchical clustering approach |
Variation and Language Processing (VALP) 6 Universidade de Vigo |
June 2024 |
| "In terms of gender, how do you describe yourself?": Counterideology and interaction in trans-centric conversation |
[Cancelled] The 27th Center for Language, Interaction and Culture-Graduate Student Association (CLIC-GSA) Conference University of California, Los Angeles |
May 2024 |
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Current norms and best practices for collecting and representing sex/gender in linguistics: Towards ethical and inclusive methodologies Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Marina Zhukova, and Lal Zimman |
2024 Linguistic Society of American (LSA) Annual Meeting Sheraton New York Times Square |
January 2024 |
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Beyond third-person: Epistemologies of race, place, gender, and power in you guys and y'all Panel: Trans linguistic logics: Pronominal and grammatical epistemologies |
2023 American Anthopological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society (AAA/CASCA) Annual Meeting Metro Toronto Convention Centre |
November 2023 |
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Operationalizing gender: Implications of participant-driven measurements Montreal Benesch and Cooper Bedin |
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51 Queens College and CUNY |
October 2023 |
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Operationalizing gender: Methods for statistical modeling of open-response demographic data Cooper Bedin, Lal Zimman, and Marina Zhukova |
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51 Queens College and CUNY |
October 2023 |
| What do you guys and y'all tell us about inclusive language? Race, place, gender, and linguistic ownership in metalinguistic debates |
The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) University of California, Santa Barbara |
April 2023 |
| "Battle of the Pronouns" revisited: Metalinguistic discourses on you guys and y'all |
Lavender Languages and Linguistics (LavLang) 29 Boise State University |
March 2023 |
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Gender in "genderless" languages Cooper Bedin, Carmela Blazado, Sol Cintron, and Julie Ha (PI: Ben Papadopoulos, M.A.) Panel: Introducing the Gender in Language Project |
Lavender Languages and Linguistics (LavLang) 28 University of Catania |
June 2022 |
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(A computational approach to) acoustic analaysis of queer speech |
The Sixth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium University of California, Berkeley |
April 2022 |
Posters
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What makes a gender “boring”?: Interactional organization of gender self-identification on the podcast Gender Reveal Cooper Bedin, Camille Browder, Zoë McAnerney, Jayden Okumura, Joanie Rosas Garcia, Alli Saona, and Zoey Tran |
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 54 University of Montreal |
October 2026 |
| Representing nonbinary identity and politics in quantitative linguistic analysis |
Linguistic Insitute - Linguistic Society of America (LSA) University of Oregon |
July 2025 |
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"Representing everyone else outside these two boring genders": The role of popular media in trans language activism Cooper Bedin and Montreal Benesch |
LingComm25: Communicating Linguistics to Broader Audiences Online |
April 2025 |
| Towards a model of the listener in perception of queer speech |
20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) Prague Congress Center |
August 2023 |
Workshops and organized sessions
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Reality crisis: Linguistic epistemics of the (un)real Lal Zimman, Cedar Brown, Montreal Benesch, Cooper Bedin, and Marissa Morgan |
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2027 San Francisco Marriott Marquis |
January 2027 |
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Demographics in linguistics research: The sex/gender question Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Marina Zhukova, and Lal Zimman |
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Webinar | May 2025 |
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Poetics, performance, and representation Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, and Marissa Morgan |
Symposium on Representing Language and Language Users The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) University of California, Santa Barbara |
May 2025 |
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(Trans) Pear Film Live!: Queering narrative analysis and linguistic performance ethnography Making/doing session Lal Zimman, Crystal Gong, Montreal Benesch, Kris Ali, Cooper Bedin, Cedar Brown, Nicky Macias, and Dozandri Mendoza |
2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Biennial Conference University of Chicago |
May 2025 |
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The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research Organized session Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Kirby Conrod, Marina Zhukova, and Lal Zimman [bit.ly/LSA2024GenderQuestionMaterials] |
2024 Linguistic Society of American (LSA) Annual Meeting Sheraton New York Times Square |
January 2024 |
| Gender-Inclusive Language for Teaching |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
April 2021 |
| LaTeX for Linguistics |
Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) University of California, Berkeley |
March 2021 |
| LaTeX for Linguistics |
Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) University of California, Berkeley |
November 2020 |
| LaTeX for Linguistics |
Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) University of California, Berkeley |
March 2020 |
| LaTeX for Linguistics |
Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) University of California, Berkeley |
November 2019 |
Research supervision
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Gender and Race Attribution Project (GxRAP) stimulus creation PIs: Lal Zimman, Ph.D. and Cooper Bedin, M.A. |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
Spring 2026–Present [Qtrs.] |
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Matched guise experiment distribution and analysis PI: Cooper Bedin, M.A. Faculty supervisor: Lal Zimman, Ph.D. |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
Fall 2025–Present [Qtrs.] |
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Gender Reveal podcast transcription PI: Cooper Bedin, M.A. Faculty supervisor: Lal Zimman, Ph.D. |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
Winter 2025–Present [Qtrs.] |
Other research experience
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Gender and Race Attribution Project (GxRAP) PI: Lal Zimman, Ph.D. |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
Winter 2023–Present [Qtrs.] |
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Copy Editing (LaTeX) Journal: Phonological Data and Analysis PI: Matt Gordon, Ph.D. |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
Fall 2023–Winter 2024 [Qtrs.] |
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Gender in Language Project PI: Ben Papadopoulos, M.A. Faculty supervisor: Justin Davidson, Ph.D. [genderinlanguage.com] |
Linguistics Research Apprenticeship Program (LRAP) University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2021–Spring 2022 [Sems.] |
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Copy Editing (LaTeX) Journal: Language Documentation & Conservation PIs: Peter Jenks, Ph.D.; Lev Michael, Ph.D. |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley |
Summer 2020–Spring 2021 [Sems.] |
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Electromagnetic Articulography Data Processing PI: Karee Garvin, M.A. |
Linguistics Research Apprenticeship Program (LRAP) University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2019 [Sem.] |
Teaching
Instructor
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Linguistics 127: Psychology of Language University of California, Santa Barbara |
Summer 2026 |
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Linguistics 180: Language, Race, and Ethnicity University of California, Santa Barbara |
Summer 2025 |
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Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Summer 2022 |
(Head) teaching assistant
| Teaching Assistant |
Linguistics 181: Languages of the World University of California, Santa Barbara |
Fall 2026 [Qtr.] |
| Teaching Assistant |
Linguistics 147CS: Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders University of California, Santa Barbara |
Spring 2026 [Qtr.] |
| Teaching Assistant |
Linguistics 111: Advanced Computational Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
Spring 2025 [Qtr.] |
| Teaching Assistant |
Linguistics 145: Articulatory Phonetics University of California, Santa Barbara |
Winter 2025 [Qtr.] |
| Teaching Assistant |
Linguistics 15: Language in Life University of California, Santa Barbara |
Summer 2024 |
| Teaching Assistant |
Linguistics 132: Language, Gender, and Sexuality University of California, Santa Barbara |
Fall 2023 [Qtr.] |
| Teaching Assistant |
Linguistics 110: Foundations of Computational Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
March 2023 |
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Head Teaching Assistant Head of Student Support; Head of CS Scholars |
Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2022 [Sem.] |
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Teaching Assistant Student Support; CS Scholars |
Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2021 [Sem.] |
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Head Teaching Assistant Head of Content; Head of Student Support |
Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Summer 2021 |
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Teaching Assistant CS Scholars |
Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2021 [Sem.] |
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Teaching Assistant Content |
Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Summer 2020 |
Reader, tutor, or lab assistant
| Reader |
Linguistics 110: Foundations of Computational Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
February 2025 |
| Reader |
Linguistics 110: Foundations of Computational Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
February 2023 |
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Course Tutor Parties |
Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2020 [Sem.] |
| Course Tutor |
Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2020 [Sem.] |
| Academic Intern |
Computer Science 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2019 [Sem.] |
Guest lectures
| Language, race, and reality TV |
Linguistics 180: Language, Race, and Ethnicity University of California, Santa Barbara Instructor: Cormac League, M.A. |
April 2026 |
| Beyond third-person: Epistemologies of race, place, gender, and power in you guys and y’all |
Linguistics 132: Language, Gender, and Sexuality University of California, Santa Barbara Instructor: Kris Ali, M.Phil. |
April 2026 |
| Language, technology, and power |
Linguistics 187: Language, Power, and Learning University of California, Santa Barbara Instructor: Nicky Macias, M.A. |
April 2026 |
| Quantification and social justice in technology |
Interdisciplinary 84BY: Trans Linguistics Honors Seminar University of California, Santa Barbara Instructor: Lal Zimman, Ph.D. |
November 2024 |
| New approaches for operationalizing gender in sociolinguistic research |
Linguistics S303: Sociolinguistics University of Waikato Instructor: Sidney Wong, M.S. |
September 2023 |
Other teaching experience
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Associate Mentor, Electrical Engineering 16A LGBTQ+ Affinity Section |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2022 [Sem.] |
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Associate Mentor, Computer Science 61A LGBTQ+ Affinity Section |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2021 [Sem.] |
| Senior Mentor, Electrical Engineering 16A |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2020 [Sem.] |
| Senior Mentor, Electrical Engineering 16A |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2020 [Sem.] |
| Junior Mentor, Electrical Engineering 16A |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2019 [Sem.] |
Service, affiliations, and skills
Academic, artistic, and community service
| President |
Drag Club at UCSB Associated Students and Graduate Student Association University of California, Santa Barbara |
September 2026–Present |
| LingComm Conference Advisory Board | LingComm: Communicating Linguistics to Broader Audiences | October 2026–September 2027 |
| Treasurer |
Drag Club at UCSB Associated Students and Graduate Student Association University of California, Santa Barbara |
September 2025–June 2026 |
| Linguistics Department Representative |
Graduate Student Association (GSA) University of California, Santa Barbara |
January 2025–June 2026 |
| Linguistics Department Representative | UAW Local 4811 | September 2024–June 2026 |
| Officer |
Language Interaction and Social Organization Graduate Student Organization Graduate Student Association (GSA) University of California, Santa Barbara |
September 2024–June 2026 |
| Treasurer |
Queer and Trans Graduate Student Association University of California, Santa Barbara |
September 2024–June 2026 |
| Panelist: Union and labor rights |
Linguistics 275: Teaching assistant seminar Instructor: Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara |
May 2026 |
| Coordinator |
Drag Club at UCSB Graduate Student Association University of California, Santa Barbara |
September 2024–September 2025 |
| Organizer |
The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) University of California, Santa Barbara |
May 2025 |
| Organizer |
Symposium on Representing Language and Language Users The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) University of California, Santa Barbara |
May 2025 |
| Mentor - Womxn in STEM mentorship program |
Womxn in Science and Engineering (WiSE) University of California, Santa Barbara |
January–March 2025 |
| Judge - Grad Slam |
Graduate Division University of California, Santa Barbara |
February 2025 |
| Reviewer |
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) 27 University of California, Santa Barbara |
February 2025 |
| Panelist - "Applying to grad school" information session |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
November 2024 |
| Zwicky Award Committee Member | Linguistic Society of America (LSA) | August 2024 |
| Peer Mentor |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
September 2023–June 2024 |
| Graduate Student Representative |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
June 2023–June 2024 |
| Session Chair |
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) 26 University of California, Santa Barbara |
May 2024 |
| Colloquium Coordinator |
Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara |
March 2023–March 2024 |
| Reviewer |
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) 26 University of California, Santa Barbara |
January 2024 |
| Session Moderator |
The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) University of California, Santa Barbara |
May 2023 |
| Session Chair |
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) 25 University of California, Santa Barbara |
April 2023 |
| Lab Manager |
Trans Research in Linguistics Lab (TRILL) University of California, Santa Barbara |
Fall 2022 [Qtr.] |
| Organizer |
The Sixth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium University of California, Berkeley |
April 2022 |
| President |
Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2022 [Sem.] |
| External Affairs Director |
BareStage Productions University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2020–Spring 2022 [Sems.] |
| Officer |
Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2019–Spring 2022 [Sems.] |
| President |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2022 [Sem.] |
| External Vice President |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
Fall 2021 [Sem.] |
| Orientation Leader |
New Student Services (NSS) University of California, Berkeley |
August 2021 |
| Organizer |
The Fifth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium University of California, Berkeley |
April 2021 |
| Socials Chair |
Computer Science Mentors (CSM) University of California, Berkeley |
Spring 2021 [Sem.] |
| Organizer |
The Fourth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium University of California, Berkeley |
November 2019 |
| Orientation Leader |
New Student Services (NSS) University of California, Berkeley |
August 2019 |
Lab memberships
| Trans Research in Linguistics Lab (TRILL) |
UCSB Department of Linguistics PI: Lal Zimman, Ph.D. [trillucsb.org] |
| Computational Psycholinguistics of Listening and Speaking (CPLS) Lab |
UCSB Department of Linguistics PI: Simon Todd, Ph.D. [ucsb-cpls-lab.github.io] |
| MUMBLE Lab |
UCSB Department of Linguistics PI: Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D. |
Languages and skills
| Languages |
English (Native) Mandarin (Advanced) |
| Computing |
Linguistics: Praat, LaTeX, ELAN Computational: Python, R, Java, C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS |