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I will be focusing on the LPC track while attending the SMHC program. I would like to focus working with the LGBTQI+, women, couples, and families.

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Musician/Artist: Kate Bush
Cuisine: Cambodian
City to visit: Los Angeles
Genre of Music: Electronica
Book: Siddhartha
Movie (debatable): Stardust
Past time: Hiking or lounging outside talking about life with close friends and family.

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"Hats off to Okrent, who expertly exposes the history, culture, and preoccupations of this insular tribe who live among us. She rescues language inventors, or conlangers, from the oddball bin-utopianists all, they're the first biotechnologists, trying to leapfrog evolution and improve human life. They'll thank her but everyone else will, too, for finally making sense of the conlangers' discontents." -Michael Erard, author of Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean

"A lively, informative, insightful examination of artificial languages-who invents them, why, and why most of them fail. I loved this book."-Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, New York Times

"Linguist Okrent explores some of the themes and shortcomings of 900 years worth of artificial languages. ...Okrent gamely translates these languages with unspeakably hilarious results, and riffs on the colorful eccentricities of their megalomaniacal creators. Fortunately, her own prose is a model of clarity and grace; through it, she conveys fascinating insights into why natural language, with its corruptions, ambiguities and arbitrary conventions, trips so fluently off our tongues." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Arika Okrent is a linguist whose fascination with the "faded plastic flowers" in the "lush orchid garden of languages" is recounted to delightful, often comic effect in "In the Land of Invented Languages."...Okrent's style is eminently suited to her approach, which is at once serious and playful, exemplified by her marvelous, snappy opening sentence: "Klingon speakers ... inhabit the lowest possible rung on the geek ladder."- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The author...examines a variety of would-be languages and related philosophical tenets (there are no pure ideas, all signs depend on conventions) in a rigorously linguistical way. And yet her book is a pleasure to read. It shows how language systems connect, or don't connect, with people."- New York Times

"Anyone who has felt the lure of words, odd grammatical systems or the potential connections between human thought and speech, is likely to enjoy this book just as much as I did."- Locus

"' In the Land of Invented Languages is a delight to read. It's humorous, intelligent, entertaining and highly informative. And it's a great source of knowledge about human languages and why they exasperate some people - because they are not perfect. But neither are we."- San Francisco Chronicle

"Okrent is a professional linguist and relates the place of these artificial languages in the confusion of human languages. She is also a great storyteller, and eccentric characters and dashed dreams are the stuff of this delightful book. "- Denver Post

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In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius

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Amazon.com: In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius (9780812980899): Okrent, Arika: Books

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edgecc7@gmail.com
215-704-2619

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I love to cook and bake. I briefly had an at-home baking business! Baking is just a hobby these days, but feel free to let me know if you'd like for me whip up a dessert! My husband I are both avid hikers and campers. We also enjoy biking and walking for long distances. I love music and am learning how to DJ in my spare time. Working on learning guitar and bass, as well. I love to make art when I can and will happily spend an entire day inside the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia Museum of Art anytime.

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My close to 4 year-old nephew, Finn.

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I have lived in Philly since July of 2012. Since then, I have freelance wrote for a music publication, worked at a bakery, worked at a 100+ year old cookware store in the Italian Market, and been a cookware demo person for a sales company. However, since 2014, I have been working in real estate title insurance. Around 2017 I started to get a little tired of the title insurance industry and spoke with a career counselor who encouraged me to look into counseling as my next career path. I applied for a volunteer position with the William Way LGBT Center's peer counseling program as a means for gaining some exposure and experience to see if counseling felt like a good fit. It sure did! I am still happily volunteering for William Way's peer counseling program.

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I was born in Birmingham, AL, and spent my childhood years there until I was 11. In 2000, my parents, younger brother, and I moved to Winston-Salem, NC. I went to middle school, high school, and college in Winston-Salem. My alma mater is Wake Forest University. My major was in English, and I minored in Journalism. While at WFU, I was a staff writer, section editor, and managing editor for the university's student newspaper, the Old Gold and Black. I also volunteered for the university's radio station, WAKEradio. After I graduated in May of 2011, I worked in Winston-Salem for another year then made my way to Philadelphia in July of 2012. I met a special someone named Nick Halloween weekend 2011 in Asheville, NC. He was living in Philly and made the decision moving here pretty easy. We are married with 3 cats and live in a South Philly rowhome near East Passyunk Avenue. No kids for us, but we have a 4-year-old nephew named Finn who we love dearly.