Biography

Brinn Wallin is Programs and Administration Coordinator for UCLA’s Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World, Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions, and Jeffrey P. Cunard Center for Global Antiquity. She is a recent graduate from the university, which she attended as a transfer student, studying English and Creative Writing alongside her research on the writer and poet, Sylvia Plath. Before joining Pourdavoud, Yarashater, and Global Antiquity, she worked as a Student Administrative Assistant for the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department, aiding with administrative duties, website-building, event-planning, and more. Brinn is originally from Sacramento, California and currently lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.