Besides academia, I am very much passionate about tea, especially Taiwanese tea and boba ('bubble tea'). I greatly enjoy visiting different tea shops, and I also know how to make my own.
On my free time, I enjoy volunteering in classroom settings with elementary students. When in the Bay Area, I am usually at my local Mandarin after-school, where I have been teaching English as a volunteer since 2016 and also where I initially learned the language. This school, along with my experiences with the Atayal, are what inspired my interest in language, so I continue to make it a priority to give back to these communities and the younger generation in particular.