Hi, I'm Kezia (ˈkɛzi.ə, or in Spanish)! I currently do AI engineering and image generation and evaluation research at Duolingo. I graduated from Stanford University, majoring in Linguistics and doing research as a part of the Stanford NLP group, focusing on low-resource language modeling using LLMs. I love research, education, language, and computation. My passion is equal-access education for everyone, regardless of background, socio-economic level, or nationality. My experience includes computer science pedagogy research for the State of Texas Curriculum, volunteering at and organizing all-girls code camps and hackathons, and serving as a mentor for underrepresented minorities in tech. I love studying languages. My first language is Spanish, I studied Korean and German in high school, Mandarin Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese at Stanford, and am currently studying French and Italian. I am a huge syntax, phonology, and typology nerd. In my free time, I've performed salsa and bachata, DJd at large events, and fallen off the rock-climbing wall more times I can count. My dream is to be a professor in CS or Linguistics (preferably both), by the age of 60, and while I'm on that journey, I want to explore as many opportunities as I can.