Translation: I have experience translating CV's, licenses, birth certificates, and diplomas from French and Russian into English. I have translated into New Zealand English from French and Russian for TransNational NZ Ltd I worked as a proofreader in New Zealand and have experience with the language. I am a native in American English and Russian. I am fluent in French, and minored in French Language and Literature at Boston University.

My specialties include psychology, anthropology, literature, psycholinguistics, expressive culture, poetry, journalism, writing, and the social sciences in general. I have developed my writing through academic work, freelance journalism, and poetry writing. My journalistic articles can be viewed at: Israel Behind the News and Citizen Culture. I have conducted research in language and emotion at Boston University. As a PhD student in Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, my research interests include identity formation, child development, cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, semiotics, and the intersection of culture and mental health. I also run the Clinical Ethnography Workshop at the University of Chicago.