People

Gabriela Pérez Báez, PhD., Director
Gabriela Pérez Báez is Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department, University of Oregon. Her research centers on revitalization practices around the world. She is the Director of the Language Revitalization Lab and is Co-Director of the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages alongside Daryl Baldwin. In her native Mexico, Gabriela works with Zapotec communities and has published on migration and language vitality, verbal inflection and derivation, semantic typology, and language and cognition. Gabriela is the compiler of two dictionaries of Isthmus Zapotec within a participatory and interdisciplinary model. She holds a doctorate in linguistics from the University at Buffalo.

Shayleen Eagle Speaker (Wasq’ú), Lab Manager
Shayleen Eagle Speaker is a current doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. Shayleen is a member of The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and is currently researching the Kiksht language Indigenous to Oregon and Washington. Shayleen is an active member of the Ichishkíin language revitalization community on campus and hold an MA in Language Teaching Studies from the University of Oregon.

Researchers
Daniel Black
Jaeci Hall
Enna Helms
Stacia Henry
Jermayne Tuckta
María Sollo
Connor Yiamkis