Board of Directors
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Claire Bowern, Vice President & Secretary
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Douglas H. Whalen, Founder & Chair of the Board
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Daryl Baldwin
Director - Myaamia Center, Oxford, OH Daryl Baldwin is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and currently serves as the Director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The Myaamia Center is a unique collaborative effort supported by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for the purpose of advancing the language and cultural educational needs of the Myaamia people. In September of 2016, Daryl was awarded a MacArthur fellowship for his creativity in reviving the Myaamia language, his dedication to his tribe, and his contributions to language revitalization worldwide. 
Robert C. Carlsen
Director - Legal Services, Accenture, Danbury, CT Bob Carlsen is a corporate lawyer at Accenture who focuses on Intellectual Property. He has worked and lived in India and Latin America, and is on the Board of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners, a charitable group sending US citizens abroad to assist in poverty relief and healthcare. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and St. John's School of Law and is fascinated with minority languages. Bob is the author of "Sacred Dust on Crowded Streets", and lives in Danbury, CT with his wife Patti and son Nick. 
C.J. Cherryh
Author and Classicist - Spokane, WA C.J. Cherryh is a science fiction and fantasy author who was written more than 60 books, including multiple Hugo award winners. Last year, she received the Grandmaster Nebula for Lifetime Achievement. She is also a classicist and former teacher of Latin and Ancient Greek. She is a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Space Society. She lives in Spokane with her wife Jane, a fellow science fiction author. 
Robert Frank
Linguist, Yale University, New Haven, CT Robert Frank is a Professor at Yale University. He works on computational and mathematical linguistics, syntax, language acquisition and processing. As Chair of the Linguistics department at Yale, he serves on the ELF board, and is proud to contribute to its efforts in language preservation and documentation. 
Janine Scancarelli
Linguist and Attorney - San Francisco, CA Janine Scancarelli is a staff attorney at the California Court of Appeal. Before she became a lawyer, she was Associate Professor of English (Linguistics) at the College of William and Mary. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her J.D. from Stanford University. She has worked extensively on Cherokee. |
George Aaron Broadwell
Linguist - University of Florida Aaron Broadwell is the Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, FL. He has worked on documentation projects on languages of the United States and Mesoamerica (Choctaw, Zapotec, Timucua, Kaqchikel, and Copala Triqui). 
Phil Cash Cash Linguist - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Phil Cash Cash is from the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribal communities of the southern Columbia Plateau. He is a younger speaker of Nez Perce (Sahaptian), an endangered language. He is presently completing his double doctorate in Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. 
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, MIT Noam Chomsky is a founder of the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science. He is also a highly influential social critic, philosopher and activist. He is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of many books on a variety of topics. In 2005, he was voted the world’s leading public intellectual, and a species of bee is named for him. 
Tony Johnson
Chairman, Chinook Nation - Willapa Bay, WA Tony Johnson is Chairman of the Chinook Indian Nation and education director of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe. He attended the University of Washington and Central Washington University and directed the Language Program for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon from its beginnings in 1997 until 2010. He acquired the endangered language Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon) from his elders, and he lives on the Willapa River in Washington State with his wife and five children. |
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Johanna Nichols
Linguist - University of California, Berkeley, CA
Johanna Nichols is Professor Emerita in the Slavic Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the languages of the Caucasus, language typology, historical linguistics and language preservation and documentation. Her current work includes documentation of Ingush and Chechen. She is the author of the award-winning book “Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time.”
Johanna Nichols
Linguist - University of California, Berkeley, CA
Johanna Nichols is Professor Emerita in the Slavic Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the languages of the Caucasus, language typology, historical linguistics and language preservation and documentation. Her current work includes documentation of Ingush and Chechen. She is the author of the award-winning book “Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time.”
ELF Staff
Tammy Ursini
Administrative Assistant |
Katie Martin
Intern 2016-2017 |
