My partner Alberto, children Sara and Jenny, and I in the field in Huehuetla, Puebla, Mexico in 2016.

• I am a linguist and linguistic anthropologist and my research areas are linguistic diversity, language endangerment, and language vitality. 

• My formal training is in linguistic anthropology and cognitive linguistics, with a focus on polysynthetic languages including Totonacan and Salishan languages.

• I love teaching and discovering with students how language has an impact in our lives and how we can use linguistics to understand ourselves, each other, and our lives. 

• I am a settler of Irish, Scottish, English, and German heritage grateful to be based on Treaty Six territory in Canada.