As a Language Services Project Manager, I lead and manage projects under Motorola's Digital Inclusion Initiative, which focuses on localizing indigenous languages onto smartphones. In this role, I oversee cross-functional teams, collaborating with stakeholders and linguists to create innovative solutions that promote language revitalization and digital inclusion. I am passionate about empowering indigenous communities by leveraging innovative digital tools to aid in the revitalization efforts of indigenous languages, while ensuring that the communities retain agency over their linguistic heritage. 

I also advise the Lenovo Machine Translation team, providing insights on cross-linguistic typologies to improve the performance of our Large Language Model (LLM). By combining my linguistic background with my project management experience, I bridge the gap between language preservation and cutting-edge technology, ensuring that digital tools are inclusive and accessible for all.

I bring my expertise in linguistic fieldwork, syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface to my work. I believe that studying lesser-documented languages is both culturally important and of theoretical value. I hold a Master's Degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. My thesis, Questions and indefinites in Sanitago Laxopa Zapotec, investigates the syntax-semantics interface of quexistentials in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec (Oto-Manguean). I have participated in various psycholinguistic research projects funded by NSF Grant BCS-2019804, Animacy and resumption at the border of cognition and grammar. I was a co-organizer of S-Circle and Nido de Lenguas through the Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America. I was also involved in the Zapotec Language Project, where I helped to transcribe, translate, and document Zapotec audio and text for 4 years, as well as help to create Zapotec language learning materials.

Contact: delaney [at] motorola [dot] com