Associate Professor and Program Director of Neuroscience and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; whose doctoral and post-doctoral work was conducted in theoretical linguistics and neurosciences at University College London and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member of the faculty at Teachers College since 2003; Certified Institutional Review Board (IRB) professional with expertise in research compliance and the ethical conduct of research with human participants in diverse communities; Director, Neurocognition of Language Lab at Teachers College, which uses brain imaging techniques to investigate questions about the neuroscience of language, learning, and cognitive processing across the lifespan, with an emphasis on multilingualism, literacy, speech, and language; Co-Author, "Middle Schooler's Reading and Processing Depth in Response to Digital and Print Media" (2023, bioRxiv)