The Linguistics League is a worldwide organization of volunteers creating programming and resources for teens interested in linguistics.
Join our hangout Discord (for participants and ling enthusiasts), our event planning Discord, or reach out at linguisticsleague@gmail.com! We're happy to answer questions.
Ling League’s mission is to cultivate interest and appreciation for linguistics among teens and to advance awareness of the expansive opportunities within the field. We aim to increase linguistics opportunities at the high school level and to highlight the ways language is embedded into human life.
Ling League is committed to inclusion. Our diverse team is integral in ensuring that a wide range of perspectives are heard and furthers our mission of increasing awareness in all aspects of linguistics.
Cristina Procaccino
Program Manager
Cristina is a Latin teacher in Fairfax County, VA. She obtained a B.A. in Classics and Italian from the University of Pittsburgh; an M.Sc in Classics from the University of Edinburgh; and two M.Eds from the University of Virginia. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Multilingual Education at George Mason University. She loves languages and linguistics and sharing them with her students.
Brad Neimann
Event organization
Content Creation
Conlanging
Brad is a Master’s research student currently at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His passion for languages began with conlanging, but he soon became interested in linguistics more generally, with a special interest in morphosyntactic alignment and historical phonology. Although currently doing research in physics, he hopes to have an opportunity to contribute to linguistic research at some point.
Vivian Wang
Content Creation
Social Media
Sociolinguistics
Vivian is a junior at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego, CA. Always interested in language, she first became discovered linguistics in middle school, comparing English and Mandarin exonyms to endonyms. She’s especially interested in socio- and computation linguistics. In her free time, she reads the news and admires old ad illustrations.
Tarun Balaji
Content Creation
Social Media
Psycholinguistics
Tarun is a freshman at the University of Minnesota from India. He is a polyglot whose research interests are in psycholinguistics and dialectology. Tarun also started and presides over the TALC committee at Ling League. When he’s not thinking about linguistics, Tarun is probably tutoring, cooking or questioning the meaning of life.
Hannah Nieuwveld
Content Creation
Event Organization
Linguistic Anthropology
Hannah is a rising freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. She is particularly interested in linguistic anthropology and endangered languages, inspired by her experiences living on Sakhalin Island, Russia. Besides linguistics, she loves music and creative writing.
Joy Xie
Event Organization
Content Creation
Joy is a junior at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, CA. She first fell in love with linguistics through olympiads, and continues to pursue language-related hobbies. When not doing her German flashcards, Joy enjoys learning physics and creating puzzles.
Wugs Emeritus
Maanu Obalapuram
Content Creation
Comparative Linguistics
Maanu is a senior at Marcus High School in Dallas, TX. She gained an interest in linguistics throughout her bilingual childhood, and is excited to be a part of the team! She’s passionate about studying historical and comparative linguistics. In her free time, she loves creative writing, knitting, and playing bridge with her family!
Erin Ye
Content Creation
Social Media
Language Acquisition
Erin Ye is a sophomore at Stanford University and recent graduate of Huntington High School on Long Island, New York. Having grown up trilingual, she loves all aspects of language and is particularly interested in computational linguistics and language acquisition. She also loves to run and listen to music and is always thinking about her next meal!
James Zhang
Content Creation
Social Media
Computational Linguistics
James is a junior at Princeton University from Basking Ridge, New Jersey. He is ecstatic about bringing linguistics into the high-school world and looks forward to pursuing linguistics and computer science degrees in college. Later, he hopes to study computational linguistics in graduate school.
Arnav Gupta
Content Creation
Historical Linguistics
Arnav is a sophomore at Stanford. His passion for languages comes from growing up in a bilingual household, and he holds a particular interest in language acquisition and historical linguistics. Outside of linguistics he enjoys working out, reading, and grilling.
David Garsten
Content Creation
Social Media
Conlangs
David is a freshman at Yale. He loves studying pragmatics, language documentation and revitalization, historical linguistics, and how language and culture are related, and he is thrilled to be part of a project bringing linguistics to other teens! In his free time, he enjoys creative writing and runs the conlanging YouTube channel Shmili Langs.
Anastasia Small
Content Creation
Anastasia is a freshman at the University of Tulsa. She became interested in linguistics because of a lifelong fascination with words and languages. She speaks Spanish, is currently learning Hindi, and has founded a linguistics club at her school. Apart from linguistics she enjoys running, kayaking, going to the library, and learning new things!