“Are you competent? And are you someone I want to work with? You need to be both”

Christopher Farina holds a doctorate in linguistics from the University of South Carolina. He has over 10 years of experience across a wide range of functions in qualitative and quantitative research in applied linguistics and in the social sciences. He is currently Associate Director, Listening & Linguistics, at InVibe Labs, a voice research company that works with healthcare organizations.

Christopher Farina on LinkedIn

Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit

Topics include

– historical linguistics

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“Linguists make the best everything”

Minnie Quartey is Vice President of Impact & Innovation for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. She earned her PhD in linguistics at Georgetown University and embarked on a career working in the non-profit organization management industry. Her research has been featured on the front page of the Washington Post, she has been a guest on NPR, and she was the primary field researcher for the first publicly accessible Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL) funded by the National Science Foundation.

Minnie Quartey on LinkedIn

Minnie’s LCL21 panels: Being Black and Successful Beyond the Academy, and Linguists in Non-Profit Organizations

Write the Damn Dissertation

Topics include

– sociolinguistics

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“I’d like to see anthropology become a household word again”

Elizabeth Briody is an anthropologist who has been involved in cultural-change efforts for over 30 years – first at General Motors Research and later through her own consulting practice, Cultural Keys. She has led many career initiatives including an analysis of AAA Mentoring programs, numerous career webinars, and the Career Tools for Anthropology Workbook, just published by the Anthropology Career Readiness Network, of which she is one of the founders.

Elizabeth Briody on LinkedIn

Cultural Keys LLC

Anthropology Career Readiness Network

Career Tools for Anthropology Workbook

Transforming Culture

Topics include

– anthropology

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“Linguistics has a marketing problem”

Andrea Berez-Kroeker is the Linguistics Department Chair at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and an At-Large member of the LSA’s Executive Committee. She is primarily a documentary linguist specializing endangered language preservation.

Andrea Berez-Kroeker on LinkedIn

Andrea Berez-Kroeker’s website

Kaipuleohone, University of Hawai’i’s Digital Language Archive

Brendan Regan is an Assistant Professor of Spanish & Linguistics at Texas Tech University and the Director of the Sociolinguistics & Bilingualism Research Lab. He is a mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) researcher.

Brendan Regan on LinkedIn

Brendan Regan’s website

The Linguist List

Leaving Academia, by Christopher L. Caterine

7000 Languages

Topics include

– linguistics faculty

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“Build relationships with your coworkers – you don’t have to be friends with them”

Taylor Melton is a linguist and educator with over 15 years of international experience in teaching, language consulting, and data-driven research. She earned her Master’s in Linguistics from National Taiwan Normal University, as well as attending Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. Her career has included lecturing at Overseas Chinese University in Taiwan, crafting tailored language programs for corporate clients in Germany, and writing freelance for culture magazines. She is currently writing an Introduction to Linguistics textbook for undergraduate students.

Taylor Melton on LinkedIn

The Language of Food by Dan Jurafsky

The Extensive Reading Foundation

Topics include

– language teaching

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“Go work with people in legal fields because they are the ones working on language access”

Serena Williams received her PhD from UC Davis. She is a linguistic entrepreneur who leads walking tours, does genealogy research, is writing a textbook, developing K-12 linguistics courses, and is even writing a memoir about her time spent doing van life with her daughter while teaching her lessons tailored to the places they were visiting. She founded both the Language and Heritage Institute and Chronos Heritage Services.

Serena Williams on LinkedIn

Chronos Heritage Services

Language and Heritage Institute

From PhD to Life (Jen Polk)

Topics include

– genealogy

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This is just a reminder that Linguistics Career Launch 2024 is happening SOON – July 15-26, 2024. If you’re a linguist looking for a job outside academia, LCL24 is THE two-week event that will jump start your career journey. LCL events are open to undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and alums — in short, any linguists who want to transition from academia to industry.

There will be workshops, panels, interviews, and even financial planning sessions! Here’s a selection of what’s on offer:

We’ll also have two courses:

Tickets are available at Eventbrite.

Please visit LinguisticsCareerLaunch.com for more information!

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“Be open to doing things that are not what you studied in school”

Peter Benson received his PhD in linguistics from UC San Diego in 1973, in addition to studying neuroscience, neuropsychology, and computer science. He’s worked on speech recognition, user interface, and artificial intelligence. He had a long career in aerospace communications, while navigating life as a single parent. He is now retired and pursuing a life of gardening, woodworking, philosophy, and crossword puzzles.

Peter Benson on LinkedIn

Dialect Identification (Peter Benson, co-author), research for the Air Force Research Laboratory

Topics include

– neuroscience

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This is just a reminder that Linguistics Career Launch 2024 is happening SOON – July 15-26, 2024. If you’re a linguist looking for a job outside academia, LCL24 is THE two-week event that will jump start your career journey. LCL events are open to undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and alums — in short, any linguists who want to transition from academia to industry.

There will be workshops, panels, interviews, and even financial planning sessions! Here’s a selection of what’s on offer:

and two open discussions:

Everything about work environments that you were afraid to ask

and

But what KIND of degree?

We’ll also have two courses, each of which will meet six times during LCL:

Early-bird registration for hashtag#LCL24 is ending on 6/24! Get your ticket before prices go up. Or take advantage of the special early bird group rate: save over $100 by registering 4 people together! Register as a department or with friends.

Tickets are available at Eventbrite.

Please visit LinguisticsCareerLaunch.com for more information!

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“It was a wake-up call – my marriage is more important to me than that job”

Emily Pace has a breadth of experience across the non-profit, public, and private sectors, including at several technology companies, the National Association of Attorneys General, the Close Up Foundation, and the Library of Congress. She was one of the leaders of Linguistics Career Launch 2021 and is now heading up Linguistics Career Launch 2024. Emily holds a B.A. in French and Arabic and an M.S. in Theoretical Linguistics, both from Georgetown University, as well as certificates from the Paris Chamber of Commerce and the Paris Institute of Political Studies.

Emily Pace on LinkedIn

Linguistics Career Launch 2024

Topics include

– computational linguistics

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