Daniel is a TED Resident and the co-founder of Wikitongues, which grew out of a personal project he began in 2013. He has been working with online initiatives since 2011, when he helped launch the Catalan-language edition of Global Voices. He is an historian and designer by training, having studied at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research in New York City. He speaks English, Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese.

Frederico is the co-founder of Wikitongues. A seasoned design technologist with a foundation from Parsons School of Design in New York City, he is Head of Product at Elucd, which helps city leaders track every neighborhood feels about trust and safety, and develop strategies for their improvement. He stewards Wikitongues infrastructure for scalable community management and archiving.

Jamie Joyce is the founder and executive director of the Society Library, a non-profit digital library of logic, language, and media related to social and political issues in the United States. She previously served as COO of a United Nations affiliated NGO and managed an international micro-granting fund where she oversaw the funding and management of 30 projects in over 20 countries. Jamie will bring her experience working with hyper-local community programs and language preservation to advance the Wikitongues mission.

Richard is the Founder and CEO of KindredBio (NASDAQ:KIN), a biotech developing medicines for pets. Previously, he was CEO of OneWorld Health, a Gates Foundation-funded nonprofit developing drugs for impoverished patients in developing countries. Prior to that, Richard held leadership roles at several biotechs. Richard is a Harvard-trained physician and a Rhodes Scholar. He was named by BusinessWeek in 2006 as one of 99 youngest public company CEOs in the U.S. He has authored several textbooks on drug development and teaches at UCSF Medical School.

Wade is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 1999 and 2013 he served as Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and is currently a member of the NGS Explorers Council and Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Kristen received a BFA in Photography and Italian from the University of Alabama and holds a Master of Arts in African Studies & Linguistics from Helsinki University. With a background in law and disability rights, her interests lie in language activism and Sign linguistics. She speaks English, Swahili, Finnish, French, and is currently learning Kenyan Sign Language.

Agustín is Director of Indigenous Languages at the Ministry of Culture in Peru, where he has been directing the government toward culturally inclusive language policy. Against the backdrop of the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages, he organized Peru's first National Congress of Indigenous Languages, gathering South American language activists and academics in Cusco.

Alolita is Board Chair of the Unicode Consortium, which digitizes the world's writing systems, making it possible for people to use their languages online. A veteran of the Wikimedia Movement, she is expanding open source collaboration models around the world. From Twitter to AWS, she has led engineering teams in language localization, natural language processing, and user engagement.

Candace is an Associate Professor at the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program at the University of British Columbia, where she focuses on the intersection of digital technology, language education, and language revitalization. She was raised in and contributes to the movement to sustain the Hawaiian language and is passionate about Indigenizing the academy today.

Catriona Malau is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Newcastle in Australia, where she specializes in endangered language documentation. One of the foremost specialists in the languages of Vanuatu, she is the author of a grammatical description of Vanuatu’s North-east Ambae language, as well as the first standard grammar the Vurës language of Vanua Lava Island.

Ghil’ad is professor of linguistics and endangered languages at the University of Adelaide in Australia, research fellow at the Australian Research Council, and a distinguished Visiting Professor at Shanghai International Studies University. An expert in revival linguistics, he is president of AUSTRALEX and advises language several revitalization efforts in Australia.

Godfrey is an expert human rights, international humanitarian law, transitional justice. He is a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan and author of Reflections on Africa, a blog of essays about justice, security, and development in Africa.

Laura is Director of Operations at the Long Now Foundation, where she leads the Long Now Library and the Rosetta Project. She is a linguist who specializes in endangered language documentation, description and revitalization, as well as the growing subdiscipline of computer-assisted linguistics.

Natalie is Director of the Queens Memory program, a culture-arching project at the Queens Public Library in New York City. She also manages the Metadata Services division within the library's Technical Services department, overseeing archival digitization and the creation and management of metadata for the library's physical and digital collections.

Sarah Bunin Benor is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and director of the Jewish Language Project at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, language contact, and Diaspora Jewish languages, especially language and identity among contemporary American Jews.

Subhashish Panigrahi is an open culture advocate, documentary filmmaker and a community catalyst who has led community development for the Wikimedia Foundation, Internet Society, and Mozilla and Centre for Internet Society. A National Geographic Explorer and MJ Bear Under 30 Fellow, he founded OpenSpeaks, an OFDN project for developing underrepresented languages.