Stella Perez is a third-year student at UC San Diego, majoring in Linguistics with an emphasis in Speech and Language Sciences and minoring in Human Developmental Sciences. She currently serves as the President of the Linguistics Undergraduate Association (LingUA). Stella has been learning ASL at UCSD since Fall 2024, and after graduating in June 2026, she plans to pursue a career as a speech-language pathologist, with an interest in serving the d/Deaf community. Outside of the lab, Stella enjoys spending time with her cat, Kat Vonnegut, reading, and visiting the orangutans at the San Diego Zoo.