Marie-Odile Junker is a Professor of Linguistics at Carleton University, Canada. Her research interests include Indigenous language documentation, lexicography, and the relationship between language preservation and information technologies. She has been exploring participatory approaches to research. Her first website http://www.eastcree.org, which she started in 2000 in partnership with the Cree School Board of Quebec, has grown to encompass a large oral stories database, dictionaries, online language lessons, and games, and an interactive grammar of East Cree. Since 2005 she has participated in the creation of the Innu dictionary, one of the largest indigenous dictionaries to date, and directed its online and print (2016) publication. Current and on-going projects include the expansion of an online interactive linguistic atlas of Algonquian languages (atlas-ling.ca), the integration of twelve Algonquian dictionaries into a common digital infrastructure and a dictionary of the Atikamekw language. In 2017 she received a Governor General’s Innovation Award for her work.

J. Randolph Valentine is Professor of Linguistics and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on strategies of rich documentation of endangered languages, with a primary interest in the Ojibwe language, spoken in many distinct dialects in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. His dissertation research was a dialectological study of Ojibwe, involving the collection and analysis of lexical, morphological, and textual material from communities across Canada. He is also the author of an extensive grammar of the dialects of Ojibwe spoken along the shores of Lake Huron, and is presently working on dictionaries of two distinct dialects.

Conor McDonough Quinn is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Maine Department of Linguistics. A documentary and revitalization linguist whose theoretical research centres mainly around morphosyntax, he has worked primarily with the Eastern Algonquian speech communities indigenous to the current-day U.S.-Canadian Northeast. His dissertation examines gender, person, and referential- and clausal-dependency morphology in Penobscot verbal argument structure; subsequent and ongoing collaborative work has included creating an audiovisual archive of Passamaquoddy conversational speech, ↵devising learner-L1-informed approaches to ESOL/ELL teaching, and developing effective adult heritage-learner curricula for Maliseet, Mi’kmaw, and Abenaki revitalization efforts. He is now finishing a three-year NSF/NEH DEL-funded project to finalize and publish a legacy manuscript dictionary of Penobscot, while also continuing to focus on improving L2 pedagogical strategies for Eastern Algonquian and other indigenous North American languages.