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Dr. Mark Turin is an anthropologist, linguist and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and Chair of the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program.

His research interests are language conservation, documentation and endangerment; orality, archives and cultural heritage. For over twenty years, his regional focus has been the Himalayan region (particularly Nepal, northern India and Bhutan), and more recently, the Pacific Northwest.

He directs two international research initiatives, Digital Himalaya and the World Oral Literature Project.

His office and home are located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the h蓹n虛q虛蓹min虛蓹m虛-speaking Musqueam people.

Professor Zuckermann is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages and Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), and serves as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Language Contact.

He is a leading expert of 鈥楻evivalistics鈥�, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization and聽re-invigoration. He is particularly interested in multiple causation, cross-fertilization and horizontal gene transfer in languages, and the relationship between language and identity.聽

Ghil鈥檃d鈥檚 linguistic interests are wide ranging but on this 鈥楩orum鈥� he focuses on indigenous languages in Australia.

Dr. Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla is an indigenous language advocate, educator and researcher. She is an assistant professor in First Nations Languages and Education at the Department of Language & Literacy Education at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Candace was born in Hilo, Hawai鈥檌. and raised in a sugar plantation town, Pahala, in Ka驶奴. She studied in Hawaii before moving to Tucson, Arizona, for university.

Candace returned to Hawai驶i to take up the role of Visiting Assistant Professor in Ka Haka 驶Ula O Ke驶elik艒lani College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawai驶i in Hilo, before moving to British Columbia, where she now lives.