| Role & Term | Bio |
| Chair Amy Dahlstrom University of Chicago (–Dec 31, 2026) | Dr. Amy Dahlstrom is an Associate Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. She is a non-Indigenous linguist who has worked with speakers of Lakhota and Plains Cree in California, with speakers of Plains Cree in Saskatchewan, and with speakers of Meskwaki in Iowa. She has also edited and translated a portion of the early 20th century Meskwaki texts stored in the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. |
| Secretary-Treasurer Antti Arppe University of Alberta (–Dec 31, 2027) | Dr. Antti Arppe is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He was born and educated in Finland up to his PhD, and he is a native speaker of Finnish, the majority language of Finland, having learnt English and other languages at school. Before his academic career, he worked in a small Finnish language technology company managing the development of spell-checkers and other language technological applications for the majority languages of the Nordic countries, and he has worked since in applying that experience to create similar tools for Plains Cree / nêhiyawêwin and other Algonquian languages in collaboration with the language communities. |
| PAC Editorial Board representative Inge Genee University of Lethbridge (ex officio) | Dr. Inge Genee is a Professor of Linguistics in the Departments of Indigenous Studies and Languages and Linguistics at Iniskim University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Originally from the Netherlands, where she completed a PhD in general linguistics with a specialization in medieval Irish at the University of Amsterdam, she has lived in Canada since 1997 and worked on Niitsi’powahsini (Blackfoot) for the past 20+ years. Her work has evolved from theoretical and historical to applied and synchronic, with a special focus on communuty-based documentation and revitalization work in response to Call to Action 16 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions’s Calls to Action (2015). She is the editor of the Blackfoot Online Dictionary and the director of the Blackfoot Language Resources project. Since 2023 she has been serving as co-editor of the Papers of the Algonquian Conference. |
| Member-at-Large Chris Hammerly University of British Columbia (–Dec 31, 2027) | Dr. Christopher Hammerly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has mixed Anishinaabe (White Earth Nation descendent) and Norwegian-American heritage, and was born and raised in the suburbs of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. |
| Member-at-Large Wesley Leonard University of California, Riverside (–Dec 31, 2027) | Dr. Wesley Y. Leonard is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Supported by his experience in community language programs, he researches Native American language reclamation and works to build capacity for Native American language communities in ways that support tribal sovereignty and survivance. A collaborative project that he co-chairs, Natives4Linguistics, promotes Indigenous needs and intellectual tools as ways of doing linguistic science. |
| Member-at-Large Nora Livesay University of Minnesota (–Dec 31, 2026) | Nora Livesay is non-Indigenous with primarily Norwegian and French-Canadian ancestry. She has a MA in linguistics (2020 U of MN), and a MEd with a concentration in language revitalization (2008 U of MN – Duluth). In 2008, she began working with Dr. John Nichols assisting with audio recordings of Ojibwe speakers, and over the years has worked with speakers from Mille Lacs, Red Lake, and the Minnesota-Ontario Border Lakes region. She assisted in developing the Ojibwe People’s Dictionary, and since 2021 has worked as the editor. Among her goals as editor is to expand the dictionary software to facilitate collabortative community-editing of dictionary entries. |
| Member-at-Large Aandeg Muldrew University of Winnipeg (–Dec 31, 2027) | Aandeg Ningewance (formerly Muldrew) is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department and the Anishinaabemowin Program coordinator at the University of Winnipeg. He is Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and a member of Lac Seul First Nation (Obizhigokaang) from the Crane clan (Ojijaak). Growing up in Winnipeg, he learned Anishinaabemowin as a second language from his grandmother, professor Patricia Ningewance-Nadeau. He has taught Anishinaabemowin taught at a university level, at community programs, and through immersion, such as at Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminaang Immersion Academy. His research involves documentation and dictionary work with speakers of Anishinaabemowin to further access and understanding of the language. |