Elliott, Sonya Priscilla (Jaramillo)

Sonya Priscilla (Jaramillo) Elliott is the wife of Geoffrey Bryce Elliott. She is a linguist of significant skill and an immensely caring person.

Early Life
Sonya Priscilla (Jaramillo) Elliott was born 1 July 1976 in Frankfurt, Germany, to Candelario Jaramillo and Adrienne Priscilla (Althaus) Jaramillo.

Undergraduate Work and the Following Years
Sonya attended a community college before coming to the University of Houston. She graduated from that school with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, magna cum laude, in May 2000.

Graduate Work
After her time in the workforce, Sonya attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL). She earned her Master of Arts degree from the UL Department of English in December 2006.

In August 2007, Sonya began graduate studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at that institution.

Love and Marriage
In 2005, Sonya met Geoffrey Bryce Elliott in the UL Department of English. The two soon began dating, and on 23 April 2008, he proposed to her. Sonya accepted, and on Saturday, 9 January 2010, the two were married in a ceremony at the Fredericksburg United Methodist Church in Frederickburg, Texas. Sonya's matron of honor was her mother. Her bridesmaid was her aunt, Alice (Althaus) Hester.

Research
Sonya has presented several papers at academic conferences. She was also the organizer of the English VI: General Linguistics panel at the 2011 South Central Modern Language Association conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and was elected to chair the same panel at the 2012 conference.