I'm currently a PhD student in the Linguistics Department at the University of New Mexico.
My interests include phonology and lexical semantics, language variation and change, and the politics of language. I am currently working on American Sign Language and French, but I have studied other languages in the past, including Mexican Sign Language, Portuguese, Russian, Quechua and !Xoo.
You can read some of my papers.
Recently I have found myself working on ways that computers can help us use language to the benefit of society as a whole. One project in this regard is the StokoeTempo Font, for writing ASL using Stokoe notation.
I'm also working on SignSynth, a project to synthesize signed languages using Virtual Reality techniques.