Graduate Student Assistants

Toby Fowler
Toby is a PhD student in the Linguistics department, originally from Boulder, Colorado.

Isiah Cambridge
(Details coming soon!)

Aline Xavier
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Anna Deutsch
Anna is a MA student in the Department of Linguistics who focuses on sign language sociolinguistics and language documentation. She is originally from Jefferson City, Missouri.

Savannah Rivas
Savannah is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics with interests in, among many other things, typology and language acquisition and contact. Originally from the Four Corners, she now considers Albuquerque home.
Pictured: Savannah (left), Bijou the Cat (right)
Undergraduate Assistants

Devin Lansing
Devin Lansing éí Bit’ahnii nilį́įgo Bilagáana yáshchiin. Kinłich’íinii da bicheii dóó Bilagáana da binálí. Devin is from Coyote Canyon, NM, but attends the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, NM. He works at the UNM Navajo Language Program, assisting with curriculum and course development. Devin is also a substitute teacher pursuing a special education degree. Devin is passionate about connecting the younger generation of Diné with the importance of K’é, Saad, Nanitin, and Oodlą’.

Lonise Yazzie
Lonise Yazzie is an undergraduate student majoring in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a minor in Navajo Language & Linguistics. Lonise is from Dennehotso, Arizona, and her clans are Tódích’ii’nii, Tótsohnii, Tábąąhí, and Kinyaa’áanii.

Daniele Etsitty
Daniele Etsitty is majoring in Native American Studies and minoring in Navajo Language & Linguistics. After graduating, she plans to apply to the Law and Indigenous Peoples Program at UNM. In her free time, she loves to play softball and volleyball. Her clans are Tó’aheedlíinii, Kinyaa’áanii, Táchii’nii, Tódích’ií’nii.

Gabrielle Jack
Gabrielle Jack is a student in the Department of Biochemistry from Shiprock, NM.

Jose Saldana
(Details coming soon!)