Anna Luisa Daigneault is a linguistic anthropologist, musician, and PhD student in Anthropology at Université de Montréal, under the supervision of ethnolinguist Kevin J. Tuite. For her doctoral work, she is studying the implications of using artificial intelligence in the documentation and revitalization of the Indigenous languages of the Americas.
Daigneault is currently a research assistant at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sur les mouvements sociaux et les initiatives populaires (LAMI), under the supervision of sociocultural anthropologist Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka. For the lab, which is a space collaborative learning about social change, Daigneault contributes to background research, translation and event organization.
Most of Daigneault’s past work experience is at the intersection of community activism, art, language documentation and technology. Between 2018 and 2024, she was the Program Director for Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, a nonprofit research organization in the US, and now works there part-time as Lead Digital Curator, in close collaboration with founder and linguist Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson.
Daigneault has collaborated closely with many speakers of Indigenous, diaspora and creole languages, and has conducted ethnolinguistic fieldwork and citizen-linguist training in communities around the world. At Living Tongues Institute, she helps lead a web development team that creates multilingual technology (such as the Living Dictionaries platform) with the goal of safeguarding data in under-represented languages.
Her passion for protecting linguistic diversity is reflected in her articles, which have been published by The Conversation (Canada), Global Voices, SAPIENS, and others. She serves as Chair on the board of Art+Feminism.
Outside of academia, Daigneault is a vocalist, music producer and keyboardist. She plays music and does occasional DJ sets in her solo act Quilla, and sings in the experimental Montreal-based duo Feast of Spirits. She also performs with the acclaimed electronic-folk trio The Queen Bees, a group that blends traditional acoustic instruments with electronic elements.
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