about
anna björklund
I am a computational linguist and Californianist with a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. I am currently a linguistic engineer at Meta where I work on safety and redteaming for AI-powered wearable devices. I am also a tribal linguist for the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians (since 2020) and the Wintu Tribe of Northern California (since 2022).
My academic specialty is the Wintuan languages of Northern California, where I am particularly focused on the northern branch (Wintu and Nomlaki). My dissertation, A Grammar of Nomlaki, is the first published grammar of the Nomlaki language. My committee members were Keith Johnson, Andrew Garrett, and Gašper Beguš. More broadly, I am interested in language revitalization methodologies for languages without first-language speakers, whose sources are entirely archival. I am particularly committed to applying this knowledge to Wintuan language revitalization.