ELF Board of Directors
- Douglas H. Whalen Founder and President
- Linguist, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT
- Daryl Baldwin
- Director, Myaamia Project, Oxford, OH
- C. J. Cherryh
- Author and Classicist, Spokane, WA
- Noam Chomsky
- Linguist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- Stephanie Fielding
- Mohegan Tribe, Uncasville, CT
- Robert Frank
- Linguist, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Cynthia Henderson Magner Treasurer
- Founder of Beyond Bookkeeping Inc., San Francisco, CA
- Tony Johnson
- Chinook Nation, Willapa Bay, WA
- Darrell Kipp
- Blackfeet Tribe, Browning, MT
- Monica Macaulay Vice President
- Linguist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- Johanna Nichols
- Linguist, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Janine Scancarelli
- Linguist and Attorney, San Francisco, CA
- Bobby Winston Secretary
- San Francisco, CA
- Hanni Woodbury
- Anthropologist, Wellfleet, MA