Fall 2022
October 31, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Leaving industry to go back to academia: Retraining to become a speech language pathologist“
- Kathryn Ticknor Robinson (formerly Director of Research, inVibe Labs)
October 12, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Interactive workshop: How to design a chatbot”
- Greg Bennett (Director, Conversation Design, Salesforce)
October 5, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Linguists in Hollywood: The business of inventing languages“
- David Petersen (constructed language creator & President, Language Creation Society, creator languages for Game of Thrones, Thor, Dune)
- Jessie Sams, Ph.D. (constructed language creator and Professor of Linguistics at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas)
October 3, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Transitioning into spaces as the ‘only linguist’”
- Mackenzie Price, Ph.D. (Director, Anti-Bias Initiatives, Dot Dash)
September 29, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Transitioning to industry from tenure-line academia“
- Mark Norris, Ph.D. (Analytical Linguist, Grammarly)
September 12, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Holding space for change: An interactive conversation on how two linguists navigated transitioning in and out of jobs in government, business, consulting and academia”
- Alex Johnston, Ph.D. (Director, Masters Programs, Georgetown Linguistics)
- Marissa Fond, Ph.D. (Assistant Teaching Profesor, Georgetown University)