Service plays many roles in my life.
As a social scientist, who works with under-represented communities, I find ways to actively use my skills or privilege to give back to the community.
I mentor and coach first-generation/low-income undergraduates and women pursuing academic careers to reciprocate the mentoring and coaching I am grateful for throughout my career.
As an academic, I give back to my department, to my university, and to my field, who have created and sustained this space for intellectual development.
As a social scientist, who works with under-represented communities, I find ways to actively use my skills or privilege to give back to the community.
I mentor and coach first-generation/low-income undergraduates and women pursuing academic careers to reciprocate the mentoring and coaching I am grateful for throughout my career.
As an academic, I give back to my department, to my university, and to my field, who have created and sustained this space for intellectual development.
Language Activism
13 March 2018 - Grant: Firebird Fellowship
29 November 2017 - Aid work: Light for Limol update
17 September 2017 - Book: The Ende Alphabet Book
6 May 2017 - Accomplishment: Wine Country Century and Light for Limol
14 February 2017 - Teaching Assistantship: These Languages Were Here First: A Look at the Indigenous Languages of California
16 March 2016 - Award: Stanford Community Engagement Grant
29 November 2017 - Aid work: Light for Limol update
17 September 2017 - Book: The Ende Alphabet Book
6 May 2017 - Accomplishment: Wine Country Century and Light for Limol
14 February 2017 - Teaching Assistantship: These Languages Were Here First: A Look at the Indigenous Languages of California
16 March 2016 - Award: Stanford Community Engagement Grant
Ende Technology ClassI continually work on my research practices in Papua New Guinea to give Ende speakers more of a voice in the documentation process. I find that speakers are eager to write cultural descriptions, organize the dictionary, and comment on texts and stories. This outlook has enormously improved the quality and size of the archive. In 2018, I put the documentation skills directly in the hands of the speakers when I taught a daily technology class that regularly drew crowds of 60 or more Ende speakers. Through learning how to use audio and video equipment, the class worked together to direct, film, and narrate the first documentary on their culture and history. It is one of the few ethnographic documents that details the cultural conversion of a tribe from their own perspective.
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Chuvash Language Development
While conducting fieldwork in Cheboksary on a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant, I was able to help plan and support a summer language immersion camp for families and youth interested in developing their Chuvash language skills. I was also able to fund a scholarship for low-income youth who showed great interest in the language.
Idi Literacy Development
In order to address the immediate literacy needs of the Idi community, our team developed two orthographies for the language: one for literature and linguistic work and another more suitable for texting and technology.
Mentoring Experience
Field Research
I have mentored six undergraduate and graduate students in field research resulting in successful grant and graduate school applications and published papers.
Academic Skills Coaching/Advising
I work with a highly-motivated group of students who, for one reason or another, took time away from Stanford after a period of academic struggles. Together with Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning, I coach them in skills that can help them succeed academically. We meet weekly to discuss scheduling time, high-stress work flows, stress management. writing, and navigating student services.
American University Honors Mentorship Program
For the past three years, I have served as a mentor for my Alma Mater's Honors mentoring program. Each year, I'm paired with an Honors student interested in languages, literature or international studies. Together, we discuss career plans, graduate school, post-graduate life, fieldwork, job applications, interviewing etc.
First-Generation/Low-Income Partnership Mentor (FLIP)
Many first-generation, low-income students have a difficult time adjusting to college life or lack mentors who have successfully navigated the maze of higher education. I was fortunate to have many mentors guide me through undergrad and continue to advise me through graduate school. To give back to this community, I serve as a mentor for first-generation undergraduates through the FLIP mentorship program at Stanford.
Service Experience
Professional
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2019
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association, guest editor, special issue on languages of southern New Guinea.
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2017
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National Breath of Life Institute, linguistic partner.
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2015-present.
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Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP), member.
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2015-present.
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Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL), member.
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Boston University Linguistics Department
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2019
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Linguistics Chair Search Committee
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2019-2020
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Graduate Admissions Committee
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Stanford Linguistics Department
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2015
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Linguistics Department Website Committee, member.
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2014
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Linguistics Department Qualifying Paper Festival, co-organizer.
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2013-2019
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Stanford Linguistics Fieldwork Group, co-leader (with Bonnie Krejci).
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2013-2019
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Stanford Linguistics Department Colloquium Committee, member.
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Service that Inspires Me
Dr. Leanne Hinton
University of California, Berkeley |
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