Aylin is a second-year graduate student in the Developmental Science Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Spanish from Texas State University in 2022. From 2020 to 2022, Aylin worked with the Social Cognition Across Development (SCAD) Lab under the supervision of Dr. Katherine Warnell at Texas State University. During this time she analyzed the influence of the social behaviors of monolingual and bilingual kids, as well as looked at relations between theory of mind and lying across cultures. With the FAM Lab at UMass, she leads the Latinx Study which examines the biobehavioral response to perceived experiences of discrimination in Latinx parent-youth dyads. Her current research is interested in understanding the the feelings associated with language preference in Latino youth, and how this in turn affects their racial-ethnic identity development.