Zion Mengesha

Personal bio
Zion Mengesha received her BA in Linguistics and Philosophy (double major, summa cum laude) in 2016 from the University of California, Davis where she received the Chancellor's Award for her research which examined linguistic discrimination toward African Americans' speech in Northern California public schools. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department at Stanford University, and a graduate fellow at Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Her research centers the application of critical race theory in sociolinguistic theory and analysis, language variation and change, and speech perception and memory.

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