I’m a settler (non-Indigenous) linguist working to support community-led language revitalization and documentation. My academic training is in sociolinguistic documentation, language endangerment, shift, and maintenance. I completed my PhD in linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I was born and raised in Washington, DC and now live in Portland, OR.

I’m the Executive Director of the Endangered Languages Project (ELP). My primary role is to direct and grow ELP’s programs to support grassroots language revitalization, to facilitate spaces for knowledge-sharing, and to help advocate for language rights at the international level.

In all my work, I aspire to be a useful resource person and collaborator for Indigenous and minoritized communities who are revitalizing, reclaiming, documenting, or sustaining their languages. If any of my knowledge or skills could be helpful to you or your community, please feel welcome to contact me.

I occasionally still do some academic work. My research has focused on how people experience and respond to language shift in their communities (especially in Iyasa-speaking communities in Cameroon), how people perceive and talk about language change, and a bit of variationist sociolinguistic work.

Another research focus is language endangerment and revitalization at the global scale: what’s happening to language diversity worldwide, and what people are doing about it.

I aspire to do research that is concretely useful to communities’ aspirations for their languages. I am continually learning and striving to do this work ethically, humbly, and respectfully.

No thanks, that stuff’s not for me. Nothing you see on this page, or in any of my work, has been created or edited with generative AI.