Fiona Campbell is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at McGill University and a Sessional Lecturer with the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program. Fiona has been involved with the FNEL program since 1998 as a student, and then in subsequent years as a course co-instructor, curriculum developer, field worker, and general support on a variety of projects encouraging the long term sustainability of Salish, Wakashan, and Algonquian, languages. She graduated from UBC with a BA in First Nations Languages and Linguistics (2002) and an MA in Linguistics (2005). Her doctoral research at McGill University is focused primarily onphonetics (speech sounds), language contact, and sociolinguistics (why people say what they do the way they do in particular contexts).