Anna Luisa Daigneault is a linguistic anthropologist, musician, and PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Université de Montréal in Canada. Her doctoral research director is Kevin J. Tuite and her co-director is Luke O. Fleming. She is fluent in French, English and Spanish, and has been learning one of her heritage languages, Quechua, online.
Daigneault is studying the implications and uses of artificial intelligence in the documentation and revitalization of the Indigenous languages of the Americas. She currently works as a Program Assistant at First Languages AI Reality (FLAIR) under the supervision of Caroline Running Wolf.
FLAIR is an initiative housed at MILA (the Québec AI Institute) and affiliated with McGill University and Université de Montréal.
Daigneault has served as 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. Daigneault contributed to background research, French-English translation and event organization at LAMI, which is a space dedicated to collaborative learning about social change.
Most of Daigneault’s past work experience is at the intersection of community activism, art, language documentation and technology. Between 2018 and 2024, she served as the Program Director for Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, a nonprofit research organization in the US founded by linguist Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson, with whom Daigneault has co-authored a book chapter and several academic articles.
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 helped lead a remote web development team that creates multilingual technology (such as the Living Dictionaries platform, which houses dictionaries for over 200 languages) with the goal of safeguarding data in under-represented and vulnerable 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.
Outside of academia, Daigneault is a vocalist, music producer and keyboardist. She plays electronic music in her solo act Quilla, and performs with the acclaimed electronic-folk trio The Queen Bees, a trio based in North Carolina and Québec. They blend traditional acoustic instruments with electronic elements. Daigneault served on the board of Art+Feminism between 2023-2026.
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