Leanne Hinton is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and an advisory member of the board of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival.

Leena Huss is Professor Emerita at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Professor II Emerita at The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø.

Gerald Roche is an anthropologist, and is currently a DECRA research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.