Amy Perfors received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems and M.A. in Linguistics in 2000 from Stanford University. Having just returned from Mozambique (where she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer) she now plans on pursuing her Ph.D. just as soon as she can apply to a program. She is most interested in evolutionary linguistics, specifically the study of emergent language and communication in artificially simulated systems; language acquisition, especially the relation of language processing abilities to general cognitive performance; complexity theory and modeling of dynamical systems; and evolutionary biology.