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education.
Linguistics, M.A @ California State University, Fresno
Linguistics, B.AÂ @ California State University, Fresno
CSU: IP Taiwan Exchange Program @ National Taiwan University
skills.
Spanish/English
Medical & Legal Interpreting
User Research
Natural Language Annotation
Conversation Analysis
Microsoft Office Suite | Google Suite | Zoom | InDesign | Photoshop | Notion | Slack | Audacity | Jira | Canva | Miro
selected work experience.
Conversational AI Specialist
DEC 2021-PRESENT | STORYFILE
Created dialogues and scripts for AI-driven, conversational video SaaS product using in-house proprietary software, establishing tone & voice based on client & company’s requests Â
Created & supported different types of conversational use cases such as FAQs, digital concierges, digital assistants oral histories Â
Researched a variety of topics for interviews, fact-checked information interviewed SMEs depending on each client use for each storyfile
Conducted research to inform & enhance conversation design, preparing internal documents and white papers Â
Updated and trained AI systems in accordance to clients’ needs and feedback, implemented quality assurance checks to hit specific accuracy thresholdsÂ
 Worked across verticals to optimize product, such as: helping create test & use cases alongside product team, delivering client feedback, working with tech & product teams to test product Â
Creates script, including but not limited to making timelines, fact-checking, providing interview questions, researching content
Acts as content script supervisor during interviews and aids interviewers with interview prep and materials of interviews ranging from 100-800 questions
Created scripted experiences for different types of exhibits, such as infotainment, oral histories, activism
Interviewed subjects on their subject matter expertise
Translated SaaS UI into Spanish
Provided Spanish support for clients, including but not limited to updating AI training in Spanish, adding Spanish data
  Led internal & external trainings to teach how to use SaaS product
Spanish/English Bilingual Linguist
APRIL 2019-DECEMBER 2019 | APPEN
Part of a bilingual Spanish/English remote team working for a client to help train and create data for a virtual assistant Â
Created and annotated English and Spanish data in various dialects and registers Â
Worked within co-reference, full-scale annotation, named entity linking tasks Â
Functioned and coordinated deadlines, meetings with a fully-remote team in various timezones Â
 Adapted to quickly-changing guidelines for projects based on internal and client feedback
Generated and annotated data in a variety of domains, such as alarms, weather, news, etc, as it would pertain to a virtual assistant
Community ESL Teaching Assistant (CETA)
MARCH 2019-MARCH 2020 | ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLTaught English as a Second Language (ESL) adult classes and worked with a variety of students
with different language backgrounds, like Armenian, Spanish, Cambodian, and Hmong
Assisted and taught students one-on-one, in groups of 3-10, or up to classes of 30 students
depending on class dynamics and needs
Taught a variety of topics to students, such as census, US history, civics while incorporating practical English skills
Implemented state curriculum and tailored curriculum to students’ needs and varied education
levels
Aided students in finding outside aid, such as legal aid, childrens’ education for personal success
Community Outreach Coordinator
2015-2016, 2017- 2019 | CIRCLE K INTERNATIONALOrganized a variety of events in coordination with non profit organizations such as SPCA, Central California Food Bank, etc. to gather volunteers to participate in, smooth on-boarding, formed regulationsÂ
 Established and participated bi-monthly community outreach events for volunteers to attend, help community through organization funding, direct aidÂ
 Helped organization put an average of 2,000 collective total hours into working with local community, aided organization in fundraising events Â
Tailored internal organization structure for more efficient work, participation by streamlining tasks and delegations
recent work
Talk: Biases in Automated Speech Recognition Systems
December 2023, DevFest Fresno @ Fresno State
Panel: The Cost of Exclusion: How Lack of Diversity in AI and LLMs is Failing Marginalized Communities
API World @ San Francisco, November 2023Â
Panel: The Cost of Exclusion: How Lack of Diversity in AI and LLMs is Failing Marginalized Communities
September 6th. 2023 @ Voice & AI 2023, Washington DC
Val Jones, Weston Gaylord, Ari Palitz, Inge Auerbacher, Andrea Csabai, Dan Franke, Moira Hamilton, Kia Hays, Andrew Lush, Laiylaly Mandujano, Ruxandra Popescu, Francis Rockwell, Zoe Roellin, Ronen Shaham, and Stephen Smith. 2023. Tell Me, Inge…: An Interactive Interview with a Holocaust Survivor. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Real-Time Live! (SIGGRAPH '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588430.3597256
Talk: Biases in Automated Speech Recognition Systems
 August 2023, Data Day @ GDG Modesto