Carrie Dyck is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research focuses on stabilizing indigenous languages, particularly Cayuga (Iroquoian). Tania Granadillo is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Western Ontario. She has worked on endangered languages in Venezuela. Keren Rice is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Toronto. She has been involved with orthography standardization, and has taught the subject of developing orthographies. Jorge Emilio Roses Labrada is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario and the Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2. His research focuses on the Mako language of Venezuela and the pre-history of the Saliban family.