Governing Board
Anson Ching is a Vancouver-based writer and creative cartographer who works as a consultant in the realm of urban planning and environmental resources management. His interests in linguistics and scripts comes from his fascination with our world as seen through the lens of regional geography. He works for a future when people will have more agency and a fuller understanding of what they stand to lose and gain when it comes to what they choose to speak and write.
Amalia Gnanadesikan is the author of The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet. She holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has held positions in language research and educational assessment, and taught linguistics and writing at various universities. Her current research focuses on the history and structure of writing systems.
Evelyn Najarian is the Chief Operating Officer at MultiLingual Media, and holds a dual degree in French and Linguistics from UC Berkeley.
Michael Reid is a linguistic and cultural equity consultant, translator, writer, and educator with over 20 years’ experience in language education and language preservation.
Erik Vogt is a language and data services professional with over 23 years in specializing in technology businesses and managing international teams. Erik has an MBA, and an MS in Management and Leadership and lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Executive Director
Tim Brookes has an M.A. from Oxford University. He founded the Endangered Alphabets Project in 2009, and is the author of Endangered Alphabets and The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets. He is recognized as the world’s leading figure in script endangerment and revitalization.
Advisory Council
Simon Ager is the founder and curator of Omniglot.com.
Deborah Anderson runs the Script Encoding initiative project at UC Berkeley, which helps get scripts into the Unicode Standard so communities can eventually be able to use their preferred script on computers and devices.
Craig Cornelius helps language communities use their writing systems and languages online through his work with the Unicode Standard, as a Google Software Engineer, and through volunteer activities.
David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics, University of Bangor, UK, and author of books on English language and linguistics.
Alice Geiger is a French designer expatriate with a passion for languages.
Charles Häberl (Rutgers University) is a philologist and linguistic fieldworker whose research focuses on ancient texts and modern people.
Michael Horlick is an educator, ethicist, and lexicographer on the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.
Omar Khan is a physician, administrator, and medical school faculty member, with professional interests in global health & medical education.
Iva Kravitz owns a communications agency in New York that works with values-based architects and designers on business strategy, marketing, press outreach, leadership and innovation.
Ted Laskaris is Chief Information Officer, Columbus State University.
Joseph LoBianco is Professor Emeritus at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Prior to his current role, he was Chief Executive of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia.
Judith Miara is a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch in New York.
Maung Nyeu, a Marma Indigenous person from Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, is a scholar, author, and activist with a focus on education and Indigenous language revitalization.
Anshuman Pandey helps develop Unicode standards for many of the world’s writing systems, especially those from South, Southeast, and Central Asia.
Donna Parrish is Principal, LocWorld conference and exhibits.
Charles L. Riley is a catalog librarian for African languages in Yale University Library’s Technical Services Department, and is a co-founder of Athinkra, LLC.
Christine Schreyer is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan campus, where she specializes in linguistic anthropology, including the documentation and revitalization of endangered languages with Indigenous communities.
Alissa Stern is U.S. Director of BASAbali, an organization that empowers youth to improve their lives and their communities by engaging them in a community-developed, local language digital platform in Bali and Makassar, Indonesia.
Mark Turin is an anthropologist, linguist and occasional radio presenter, and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, cross-appointed between the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of Anthropology.
Kim Wilson is a Senior Lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts where she focuses her research on the human elements of migration.
