Alice Taff works to foster Alaskan language continuity by engaging language community members to document their languages, re-establish situations for language use, and create materials in their languages. Examples of such materials are: Deg Xiyanʼ Xidhoy: Deg Xinag narratives http://www.uas.alaska.edu/arts_sciences/humanities/alaska-languages/deg-xinag.html Woosh Een áyá Yoo X̱ʼatudli.átk: Tlingit Conversations http://www.uas.alaska.edu/arts_sciences/humanities/alaska-languages/cuped/video-conv/ Unangam Tunuu (Aleut language) conversation corpus https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI78647 She is past president of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Her current research interest is finding links between ancestral Indigenous language use and health.

Melvatha Chee earned her PhD in linguistics from the University of New Mexico and accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Her dissertation, “A Longitudinal Cross-Sectional Study on the Acquisition of Navajo Verbs in Children Aged 4 Years 7 Months Through 11 Years 7 Months,” analyzed Navajo child language data she collected. Her research interests are in the areas of morphophonology, polysynthesis, semantics, and acquisition. Her clans are Tsé Nahabiłnii, Kin Îichíi’nii, Hooghan Îání, and Áshįįhí. She maintains a connection to her culture, which enriches her Navajo language skills and knowledge.

Jaeci Hall is currently working on a PhD in linguistics at the University of Oregon. She works on language revitalization of her heritage language, Tututni, an Athabaskan language from Southern Oregon. Her research interests include language revitalization theory and methodology, syntactic and morphological reconstitution of languages that have lost their first-language speakers, as well as Athabaskan language reconstruction. She is employed as a graduate researcher at the Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI) in Eugene, Oregon.

Millie Yéi Dulitseen Hall comes from the traditional inland Tlingit territory of Teslin, Yukon and has lived in the Yukon Territory for most of her life. She started her studies of the Tlingit language in Juneau, Alaska in 2013. Her intention is to use the first language of her grandmother (her name was Jiyil.axhch Mabel Johnson) daily and in meaningful ways, for the rest of her life. She is pleased and proud that one of her sons, Timothy Shkooyéil Hall, is also learning and interested in the revitalization and teaching of the Tlingit language.

Kawenniyóhstha Nicole Martin received a recognition of completion at the Onkwawénna Kentyóhkwa Mohawk Adult Immersion Program, Six Nations, Ontario in May 2008. She is now a language instructor at the DeadiwÓnöhsnye’s Gëjohgwa’ Seneca Adult Immersion program located in Coldspring in the Country of the Seneca Nation. Her grassroots interests include the 2004 International Indigenous Elders Summit, 2005–2010 Haudenosaunee (Iroquoian) Unity Run, Indigenous Youth United Nations Declaration presentation, and more currently assisting in Haudenosaunee (Iroquoian) language revitalizing efforts where she continues assisting with immersion curriculum development and delivery techniques, and teaching basic conversational language to various groups within the Haudenosaune (Iroquoian) Confederacy homelands.

Annie Johnston, whose Tlingit name is Ḵa’yaadéi, is from the Kóoḵhittaan Clan (Raven Children’s Clan) and the Kóok Hit (Pit House). She lives in Teslin, Yukon Territory, Canada. She lost the use of her Tlingit Language at the Indian residential school she attended for ten years. Today, she continues to learn the language through cultural and traditional activities.