Dr. Lana Whiskeyjack Lana is a treaty iskwew from Saddle Lake Cree Nation and has been an assistant professor with the University of Alberta since 2017. In 2017, Lana completed her iyiniw pimâtisiwin kiskeyihtamowin doctoral program at University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quill, a former Indian Residential School attended by two generations of her own family. Lana is the lead researcher with the Spirit of the Language project.

Kyle is a Dene/nêhiyaw Métis from Northwest Territory Métis Nation who has dedicated himself to Indigenous language reclamation with the languages of his lineage. He has worked with his nation for four years, and is now completing his master’s thesis with community members from his home region to address Dëné Dédlıné Yatı̨́ revitalization. Kyle is a graduate research assistant with the Spirit of the Language project.

Claire Bowern is professor of linguistics; she has been working on language documentation and collaborating with Australian language communities and individuals for 20 years. She has run 5 boot camps over 6 years and has written articles on grammar writing, language documentation, and ethics.

Sue Hanson is coordinator of the Goldfields Language Centre and previously ran the Wangka Maya Language Centre. She has approximately 30 years experience working with all aspects of language documentation and support for communities.

Raina Heaton is the curator of the Native American Languages Collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. As a linguist she works on language documentation and revitalization projects for Tunica (Isolate, Louisiana), Kaqchikel (Mayan, Guatemala), and Enenlhet (Enlhet-Enenlhet, Paraguay), and participates in collaborative language-related projects across Oklahoma.

Susan Smythe Kung is the manager of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) and a documentary linguist. She is internationally engaged in the formulation of best practices for organizing collections of language documentation data for deposit into endangered language archives and for citing archived language data. The data and analyses from her own language documentation work on Huehuetla Tepehua, an indigenous language of Mexico, are archived at AILLA.

Zachary O’Hagan is a postdoctoral research fellow in the California Language Archive (CLA) at UC Berkeley. As a documentary linguist he specializes in the Indigenous languages and history of Amazonia, especially Peru, where he has done fieldwork with speakers of Omagua (Tupí-Guaraní), Omurano (isolate), Taushiro (isolate), and, most extensively, Caquinte (Arawak). Archival materials from these projects are deposited with the CLA and the Endangered Languages Archive.

Nick Thieberger is director of PARADISEC. He works with speakers of Nafsan (Vanuatu) and is now finalising a Nafsan dictionary. He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language and is editor of the Language Documentation & Conservation Journal.

Mandana Seyfeddinipur

Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a linguist and the director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme and heads the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS. Her expertise includes theory and method of modern language documentation, language use and face to face interaction, multimodality of language in interaction and cognitive basis of language production.

Paul Trilsbeek is the head of The Language Archive at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, which includes the DOBES documentation of endangered languages archive. As a member of the CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board, he is also involved in defining criteria for trustworthy data repositories.

Jeff Good is Professor of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo. His research interests include comparative Niger-Congo linguistics, morphosyntactic typology, and the documentation of endangered languages. He is currently co-directing a project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to document the languages and multilingual ecology of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon that involves close collaboration with faculty and students at three Cameroonian universities. He serves as co-editor of Language Dynamics and Change and Linguistics Vanguard and regularly teaches on topics related to language documentation.

Clayton Hamre is a PhD student in linguistics at the University at Buffalo, and a graduate of Ohio University with a bachelor’s in geographic information science. He is interested in historical linguistics and linguistic geography, and is currently pursuing research in the historical phonology of Otomí (Oto-Manguean) and in cross-linguistic patterns in the spatial structure of dialects.

Larry L Kimura, PhD, is Associate Professor of Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Co-Founder of ʻAha Pūnana Leo, Hawaiian Cultural Planner ʻImiloa Astronomy Center, Chairperson Hawaiian Lexion New Hawaiian Words Committee, Co PI Kaniʻāina Spoken Hawaiian Digital Repository.

Bruce Torres Fischer, B.A., is an incoming graduate student at Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Assistant for the Kaniʻāina Spoken Hawaiian Digital Repository.

Michael Running Wolf (Northern Cheyenne) has a Master’s of Science in Computer Science and is a software development engineer working on AI data pipelines. In his spare time Michael pursues indigenous language and culture reclamation using immersive technologies (AR/VR/XR), artificial intelligence, and building an automatic speech recognition system for an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest.

Caleb Moses

Caleb Moses (Aotearoa Māori) is a Data Scientist hailing from the Hokianga region in the far north of New Zealand. He has a Postgraduate Diploma in Pure Mathematics from the University of Auckland. His work focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, and automation. Moses is currently working with Te Reo Irirangi o te Hiku o te Ika on Papa Reo, a digital Aotearoa Māori language platform for a bilingual New Zealand.

Noelani Arista (Kanaka Maoli) is an Associate Professor of Hawaiian and U.S. History at the University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa. Her areas of interest include Hawaiian religious, legal and intellectual history, Hawaiian historical methods and translation. Her current project furthers the persistence of Hawaiian language archives through digital mediums. She was a contributing author to “Making Kin with Machines” an essay on Indigenous views on Artificial Intelligence, one of ten award winning essays in the MIT competition, Resisting Reduction. Her book the Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States won NAISAʻs Best First Book Award for 2019.

Caroline Running Wolf (Crow), née Old Coyote, is a multilingual Cultural Acclimation Artist dedicated to supporting Indigenous language and culture vitality. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research explores potential applications of immersive technologies (AR/VR/XR) and artificial intelligence to effectively enhance Indigenous language and culture reclamation.

Joel Davison

Joel Davison is a Gadigal and Dunghutti man from Sydney Australia. Living culture through an active role in language revitalisation for the Gadigal language, he is also an avid technologist and works at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia as a Robotics Analyst.

Pierpaolo Di Carlo (PhD Linguistics 2009, Florence) is postdoctoral associate at the Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo – SUNY. His areas of interest include the study of traditional forms of multilingualism in rural Africa, language ideologies, language documentation, African anthropology, and the languages and societies of the Hindu-Kush area (Pakistan – Afghanistan). Pierpaolo has done extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and Cameroon, has published in journals like “Language” and the “International Journal of the Sociology of Language”, and currently coordinates both a research project called KPAAM-CAM (PI Jeff Good) and the virALLanguages initiative.

Rachel Ayuk Ojong Diba is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Buea, Cameroon. In her doctoral dissertation (Applied Linguistics 2019, Buea), she dealt with the small-scale, traditional forms of multilingualism found in Lower Fungom—an area of high linguistic diversity and language endangerment in NW Cameroon—based on first-hand data she collected during extensive fieldwork in the region. She has co-authored articles published in, e.g., “the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics” and “Sociolinguistic studies”, and has presented her work in international venues in Europe. Her areas of interest include Multilingualism (rural and urban), Pidgin and Creole studies, and Language Documentation.

Dr. Kari A. B. Chew is a Chickasaw citizen and language learner. She is an assistant professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her scholarship focuses on the experiences of adult Indigenous language learners and the role of technology in Indigenous language education. She works closely with the Chickasaw Nation on online language education projects. She earned her doctorate from the University of Arizona in 2016 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the NEȾOLṈEW̱ “one mind, one people” Partnership at University of Victoria in 2020.

Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson) is of Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Euro-American ancestry and is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. A conversational speaker of the Chickasaw language and an award-winning artist, he holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Abilene Christian University, a master’s degree in Native American Art History from the University of New Mexico, and a PhD in Native Language Revitalization from the University of Oklahoma. He lives and works on the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, just outside of Ada, Oklahoma. Hinson, whose Chickasaw name Lokosh translates as “Gourd,” is of the Imatapo (Their Lean-to People) house group and Kowishto’ (Panther) clan.

Dr. Juliet Morgan has been working as a linguist for the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program for almost two years. Her 2017 dissertation focused on the acquisition of Chickasaw morphosyntax by adult language learners. In 2015, she joined the Rosetta Stone Chickasaw team to begin development and is still working on the final level of lessons. Her current work also includes assisting with curriculum development for the adult immersion program (the Chikasha Academy) and further documenting the grammar of current speakers and learners.

Bryn Hauk received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2020. Since 2015 she has spent more than nine months in Georgia, working with speakers of Tsova-Tush, an endangered Northeast Caucasian language. Presently, her ability to continue collaborating with this community and to assist with an orthography development project has met challenges due to the pandemic. Bryn continues to work on numerous aspects of Tsova-Tush documentation and description from available corpora and is seeking creative solutions for honoring her community partnership at a distance.

Shobhana Chelliah is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of North Texas. She continues to work with communities in Northeast India on language documentation projects through virtual reading groups, and online tutorials on archiving and language description. She is working with linguists Kelly Berkson and Ken Van Bik and health information specialist Sara Champlin to document, over ZOOM, US Chin community experiences with CoVID. She is also working with depositors and metadata creators virtually to build the Computational Resource of South Asian Languages Archive.

Ruth Singer is a linguist and linguistic anthropologist based at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has been working with Warruwi Community, an Indigenous Australian community since 2002. Her collaborative research on multilingualism incorporates training community members in language documentation skills, producing films with young people and making accessible digital resources. Over the past 10 years, Ruth and the community have found new ways of working together, which do not rely on Ruth travelling to Warruwi. This has allowed some of their joint activities to continue, despite restrictions on travel due to the pandemic.

Duke (Garry) Earl-Spurr is from Perth, Western Australia. After graduating from the ANU in 2015 with Honours in Language Studies, Duke moved to the East Pilbara in mid-2016 to work as an applied linguist for Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa (KJ) – which involved first spending 6 months as an intern being taught to speak Manyjilyjarra by many Martu teachers and mentors at KJ. KJ is a Martu community-development organisation that aims to keep country and culture strong and to build sustainable Martu communities. Since 2016, KJ’s language program has gained strong momentum as language has become integrated into all facets of KJ’s work.

Lynn Hou

Lynn Hou is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at University of California, Santa Barbara. As a graduate student at University of Texas at Austin, she started researching “making hands”: a constellation of family sign languages in the San Juan Quiahije municipality, a Mesoamerican indigenous (Chatino) community in Mexico. Her research is both linguistic and ethnographic, encompassing the documentation of making hands with a focus on child signers. Presently, her fieldwork plans have been suspended due to the ongoing pandemic, and she has limited communication with her collaborators, so she is analyzing old data and considering the implications of these constraints.

Clifton Girgirba is a Manyjilyjarra man from the Western Desert in Western Australia who identifies with the Kuny-kuny, Kunawariji, and Wuulkurta living waterholes. Clifton has an abiding commitment to the preservation of Martu languages. His grandparents are senior elders, and he has spent his life learning knowledge of his country from them. He has been a core participant in the Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa (KJ) Martu Leadership Program and is vocal about young people learning their culture, country, and languages. Clifton has recently started a diversionary program (Wama Wangka) founded in transmission of cultural knowledge of Martu country to younger generations.

Kalehua Krug

Kalehua Krug Ph.D. is the principal at Ka Waihona o ka Naʻauao Public Charter School, a culturally focused school in Nānākuli, Oʻahu. He is a former Hawaiian Immersion teacher and teacher educator and the former administrator of Ka Papahana Kaiapuni, Hawaiian Immersion Program of the Department of Education.

Kamuela Yim

Kamuela Yim is a former Hawaiian Immersion teacher and sat as the Director of Education for Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi, a culturally focused agricultural sustainability model in Heʻeia, Oʻahu. He also works as a translation mentor for Awaiāulu Hawaiian Language Resource Center and currently works as a system administrator of Ka Papahana Kaiapuni in the Department of Education.

I am a New Zealand born Cook Islander and made the decision 18 years ago in 2003, to return and discover more about my Cook Islands roots. While my family and I relocated for a contracted short period of time, we all decided that we would like to make Rarotonga our home and have been living here since. I am an educator of 32 years and have worked in a variety of schools and educational institutes. I have also spent time while based here in the Cooks carry out various local, regional and international consultancy contracts. This has given me a wide breadth of experience in other areas outside of education e.g. Institutional Governance, Human Rights. I am currently a teaching contractor as well as facilitating and managing international volunteering opportunities for people in the Cook Islands.

Dr. Ake Nicholas is an member of the Ngāti Teꞌakatauira people of Maꞌuke (Cook Islands). She currently is a lecturer in linguistics at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa (Massey University) in Auckland, New Zealand. Her research focuses on the description, documentation, and revitalization of Cook Islands Māori and New Zealand Māori. She also works on matters of linguistic justice, and language revitalisation more broadly. Ake has a particular interest in how young people can be encouraged to learn and use their ancestral languages.

Haoyi is a current PhD candidate in Linguistics at the Australian National University, working on Yolŋu Matha, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory. She has a background in art history as well as linguistics (University of Melbourne, 2018), and is generally interested in interdisciplinary methodologies and the intersection between language and art. Haoyi has been passionate about language revitalisation ever since volunteering with Living Languages in 2018-2019 and aims to create tangible outcomes that benefit language communities from her research.

Kathrin is a PhD student at the University of Queensland where she investigates the potential of interactive fiction for language learning, and the design of story-based language applications to support the revival of indigenous languages. Working on language learning games at an educational technologies startup, and recently on a language adventure game together with members of the Ktunaxa in North America, she realizes the importance of appropriate visual strategies to support the learning process. In her workshops, Kathrin favours project-based learning and participatory design, and she is keen to learn through collaboration, exchanging ideas and experiences with her collaborators.