Lauren is a graduate student in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program. She is originally from Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Lauren received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and Spanish from Elon University in 2017 and spent a year after graduation in Neuquén, Argentina teaching English on a Fulbright grant. For her graduate studies, she is interested in researching language processing through an intercultural lens that considers how language processing might be affected by bilingualism, accents, code-switching, and the like.