Summary
Susan Smythe Kung, Ph.D., is a documentary linguist, a digital archivist and a co-creator of the open educational resource "Archiving for the Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections". She is a graduate of Harvard Law School’s CopyrightX course as well as the Creative Commons Certificate program. During her 14 years as the coordinator of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA), she has been involved in the formulation of best practices for the organization, archiving, citation and legal and ethical sharing of language documentation, and she has collaborated with countless researchers, students and community members on these activities. At CoLang 2026, she will teach “Language Work and Intellectual Property,” a workshop she has taught under various evolving titles since CoLang 2016.