Shelby in front of a brick wall

Shelby graduated from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon with a M.A. in Spring 2020. She received her B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Oregon in Spring 2016. Shelby worked for Tyler Kendall as a research assistant since February 2015, transcribing sociolinguistic interviews for CORAAL, the first public corpus of African American English, as well as developed a syntactic annotation of CORAAL with Beatrice Santorini.

Shelby currently works at Pactera International Ltd. in Seattle, Washington.