Affiliation: University of Victoria

Language: Ucwalmícwts

Country: Canada

Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams has a legacy of being devoted to promoting, restoring, and saving Indigenous knowledge and language in her own community in Mount Currie, BC, Canada as well as regionally, provincially, nationally and globally. She has worked as an Indigenous educator and language specialist for more than 50 years. In 2004, Dr. Wanosts’a7 joined the University of Victoria as Director of Aboriginal Education (now Office of Indigenous Education). As a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Knowledge and Learning and Associate Professor she developed and delivered an innovative series on learning and teaching in an Indigenous world. Throughout her career she has continuously worked side-by-side with communities on language and culture initiatives.

Affiliation: Chaire UNESCO de Recherche Communautaire sur les Leviers du Développement : « l’Emergence par l’Innovation »

Languages: Fulfulde, Bambara, French, English

Country: Mali

Ibrahima Abdoul Hayou Cissé is a senior lecturer at Institut de Pédagogie Universitaire (Doctoral School), the Operations Coordinator at UNESCO Chair for Community Research on the Levers of Development: "Emergence through Innovation" in Bamako, Mali. His research interests include language policy, language and power, language and human rights, language acquisition and socialization in multilingual settings and language and education in Africa. He is an education consultant for international organizations in Mali on girls’ education, education strategy for internally displaced children, social cohesion and peace.

Affiliation: Tseshaht First Nation

Language: Nuu-chah-nulth, Barkley Dialect

Country: Canada

taaʔisumqa, Dawn Foxcroft is the Language Coordinator for the Tseshaht First Nation. In October of 2021, she helped to launch a two-year adult intensive using immersive techniques. Dawn completed her Masters in Indigenous Language Revitalization in 2016 from the University of Victoria. She also operates White Raven Consulting alongside her sister čiiʔiłumqa, Kelly Poirier where she connects her passions for graphic design, facilitation, education, and Indigenous language revitalization.

Affiliation: Gitanyow First Nation

Language: Gitxsan

Country: Canada

Wanda Good was born and raised in northwest British Columbia in the village of Gitanyow. Born from a long line of proud Chiefs and Matriarchs. Knowing only her mother tongue, Gitxsan as a child, Wanda describes the effect that Indian Residential School and Indian Day School has had on her ability to speak the language, the effect on her community and the her Gitxsan Nation. Wanda will talk about what she is doing today to bring back the language and will show the video ‘Calling Back Our Language’ created by her daughter Ravyn Good.

Affiliation: University of Newcastle

Languages: Dhanggati, Gumbayingirr

Country: Australia

Dr Raymond Kelly is a Dhangatti /Gumbayngirr Gurri with a keen linguistic interest in numerous oral recordings and other digital materials involving First Peoples across the State of NSW. In 2015 he was awarded a PhD from the University of Newcastle for his thesis entitled: 'Dreaming the Keepara: New South Wales Indigenous Cultural Perspectives, 1808—2007'.

Affiliation: University of New South Wales

Language: Yugambeh

Country: Australia

Candace is a Yugambeh yarrabilginngunn (song woman) and proud Kombumerri (Gold Coast) and Ngugi (Moreton Island) Australian Aboriginal woman. Candace is the founder and director of the Yugambeh Youth Choir and author of Yugambeh Talga: Music Traditions of the Yugambeh People (2005). Candace was recently awarded the 2021 National Australian Society for Music Education Teaching award for Excellence in Indigenous Music Education.Candace has taught classroom music in both Primary and Secondary schools for over 25 years, and has been appointed as the Pedagogical Leader for the Culturally Nourishing Schooling Project for the University of New South Wales.

Affiliation: New York University & Our Golden Hour

Language: Marma

Country: Bangladesh

Dr. Maung Nyeu is an Indigenous research scientist at New York University. He is the founder and executive director of Our Golden Hour, an organization committed to extending educational opportunities for children in marginalized communities and underserved areas. He is an award-winning author of children’s books and multilingual picture dictionaries. He was nominated as one of the fifty most inspiring stories by BBC World Service. His research interests include Indigenous languages and literacy, oral storytelling, Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, culturally responsive pedagogy, and moral education. Maung’s research is grounded in equity, diversity, belonging, and justice. Maung belongs to Marma Indigenous Peoples of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.

Affiliation: Chinese University of Hong Kong

Language: Limbu

Country: Nepal

Dr. Prem Phyak teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research areas include language policy, multilingualism, language ideology, teacher education and the sociolinguistics of Indigenous/minoritized languages. He has published papers in various journals such as Language Policy, Language in Society, and International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

Affiliation: University of New Mexico

Language: Acoma-Keres

Country: USA

The focus of my work is in the areas of Indigenous bilingual education and language revitalization. I obtained my doctoral degree from UC-Berkeley with a specific focus on indigenous language revitalization. I am a faculty member of the Bilingual Program in the Department of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies (LLSS), in the College of Education and Human Services (COEHS) and serve as a faculty member in the Educational Linguistics Program at the University of New Mexico (UNM). I direct the American Indian Language Policy Research & Teacher Training Center which I founded in 2008 in the UNM COEHS. We prepare Indigenous language speakers to teach in community and school-based language initiatives providing technical assistance to tribes in language program planning and related areas of program implementation. I am an enrolled tribal member of Acoma Pueblo.

Affiliation: Võro Institute & University of Tartu

Language: Võro

Country: Estonia

Jüvä Sullõv is a linguist (PhD on Finnic languages), Võro and South Estonian lecturer, teacher and researcher at the University of Tartu and Võro Institute. He is an activist of Võro language revitalisation and normalisation, an administrator of the Võro Wikipedia and FB group "Võro kiil", and father of three Võro-speaking (Võro-Estonian bilingual) children.

Affiliation: Escuela Urbana 25 de julio de 1524

Language: Kaqchikel, Kiche'

Country: Guatemala

Irma Tzirin Socop es Licenciada en Lingüística, también tiene el Profesorado en Educación Bilinguüe Intercultural. Ha realizado consultorías de traducción en kaqchikel en Ministerio de Educación, Fundación de Desarrollo Integral (FUDI). Actualmente labora como Maestra de Educación Primaria Urbana en la Escuela Urbana 25 de julio de 1524. Apoya a la Municipalidad de Tecpán Guatemala en la redacción de 85 monografías de cada aldea del municipio de Tecpán Guatemala.

Irma Tzirin Socop has a degree in Linguistics, she also has the Teaching Staff in Intercultural Bilingual Education. She has done translation consultancies in Kaqchikel at the Ministry of Education, Fundación de Desarrollo Integral (FUDI). She currently works as a Teacher of Urban Primary Education at the Urban School July 25, 1524. She supports the Municipality of Tecpán Guatemala in the writing of 85 monographs for each village in the municipality of Tecpán Guatemala.