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In 2013, I was a high school senior; the president of two clubs, founder of one; a musician; an Eagle Scout; a National Hispanic Recognition Scholar; and a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed prospective Stanford frosh. During the four years prior, I studied Latin (formally) and Mandarin Chinese (self-taught), and I discovered a passion for languages and linguistics. While at Stanford, I focused on linguistics courses relating to phonetics/phonology, language pedagogy, and language revitalization; I studied Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Nahuatl, Mandarin Chinese, American Sign Language, Igbo, and Lakota, and I conducted research as a research assistant alongside Rob Podesva and Meghan Sumner in the linguistics department, and Guadalupe Valdez in Education Department. I earned a BAH in Linguistics, and my honors thesis, under the direction of Paul Kiparsky, was/is a small first step towards proving I discovered the origins of human speech, masked as a study analyzing the correlation between language change and demographic change (further disguised as a study of the Upstate New York accent). In the time since, I've been working in hospitality, honing my communication, customer service, organization, team building, and management skills—previously at a Hilton, and now in Stanford Housing—and I have spent much of my free time working on a couple of educational YouTube channels, as well as learning about business and starting comuno.org—a language practicing platform cooperative that rewards users for language practice.

Listed skills include Spanish, Microsoft Office, Research, Linguistics, and 13 others.