Brittany Lee is a Ph.D. student in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders. She received a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in Spanish from Loyola University Chicago. She also has an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from The New School along with seven years of experience in the field. She is interested in how native users of sign languages acquire English as a second language.