Marisa Fried is in her second year of the Speech-Language Pathology MA program. She is passionate about cognitive linguistics, bilingualism, and indigenous languages. She has participated in research on verb agreement in K'iche (Mayan) at the University of Maryland and the relationship between dementia and hearing loss with Dr. Coco at SDSU. She hopes to work with the adult population as a speech pathologist, and aspires to be an outdoor educator on the side.