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Linguistics Careercast
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Linguistics Careercast is the podcast devoted to exploring careers for linguists outside academia, through interviews with linguists employed in industry.
Episodes
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Episode #93: Lauren Collister
“Music and linguistics are both an act of communication and an act of social coordination” Lauren Collister is a linguist who works as a professional writer, researcher, and educator. She received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh and spent twelve years there working in...
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Episode #92: Anna Marie Trester and Robert Lawson
“How do we find and hang on to our own humanity in this inhumane capitalist system?” After completing her PhD in Linguistics in 2008, Anna Marie Trester worked in academic administration at Georgetown University and then later at the FrameWorks Institute (a social change communications think…
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Episode #91: Kelsey Kraus
“What if we could have an academic program that combines linguistic knowledge with engineering knowledge?” Kelsey Kraus is a computational linguist, data scientist, and educator. received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2018, where she worked on the…
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Episode #90: Sarah Hendry
“My network is the most important part of my career journey” Sarah Hendry has a background in psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and discourse analysis – how language works in the brain, and how we interact with each other to get our meaning across. She also has an MBA from Temple University....
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Episode #89: Laiylaly Mandujano
“I find my professional fulfillment outside my nine-to-five, in volunteering and working with my community” Laiylaly Mandujano works at the intersection of language and technology as a conversation designer. Her professional experience spans community work, teaching English as a Second Language...
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Episode #88: Samantha Beaver
“The secret to wealth is not to be rich in money but rich in language” Samantha Beaver is a workplace communications analyst and linguist, business owner, wife, and mother. She earned a Masters in Applied English Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Since 2018, she has applied…
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Episode #87: Danny Bate
“My mission is to show people how much language they already know without realizing it” A linguist, writer, and podcaster based in Prague, Danny Bate has turned a lifelong passion with language into a career that spans teaching, academia, and online media. After completing his Master’s, he worked...
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Episode #86: Joan Barker
“My linguistics work has allowed me to experience humanity on different levels” Joan Barker received a Master’s in Linguistics at Central Connecticut State University and spent much of her career abroad, holding positions in Africa and the Middle East. She’s worked as technical consultant…
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Episode #85: Jen Polk
“Where you land in a job might not be where you want to stay” Jen Polk is a career coach for professors, postdocs and PhD students looking to make the jump from academia to industry. She got her PhD in history at the University of Toronto and since 2013 she has guided students and faculty in...
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Linguistics Careercast Update!
Just a quick update – we’ve taken a short hiatus but we have so much more content to come: Interviews! Panels! Webinars! If you’d like to support us, we have a Patreon and our first Patron is the fantastic Lingthusiasm podcast! And if you would like to be a guest on the pod, or know someone who...
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Episode #84: Abby Bajuniemi
“Networking is work, but it’s fun work – you get to talk to smart, fun people” Abby Bajuniemi is a linguist with 10+ years of experience leading UX research and content initiatives across multiple industries, working for organizations such as Google, Calendly, Medtronic, Princeton University, and...
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Episode #83: Shannon DeJong
“I thought: I don’t know which way to go. Wow – what a wonderful place to be!” Shannon DeJong is a linguist, namer, brand agency founder, writer, performer, artist, business advisor and coach; she’s worked big firms like HP, Google, Adobe, and Logitech as well as with non-profits, mission-driven...
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Episode #82: Deborah Ball
“There’s so much you can learn from linguistics when you apply it to the business of naming” Deborah Ball has been working in naming, branding, content creation, marketing, and communications for more than 10 years in the UK and the US. Her special focus has been brand naming. She has a Master’s…
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Episode #81: Emelia BensonMeyer
“We take so much of communication for granted – until we can’t communicate” Emelia BensonMeyer is a speech-language pathologist specializing in evaluation and treatment of voice, airway, and swallowing disorders. She has an undergraduate degree in linguistics and a Master’s in Communicative...
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Episode #80: Eukene Franco-Landa
“I created Minority Languaging as a place to communicate, to share, and to debate” Eukene Franco-Landa is sociolinguist with a Ph.D. from the University of Miami who works at the intersection of language, identity, and legitimacy, especially in minoritized and bilingual communities, especially...
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Episode #79: The AI Con Discussion Panel (Live)
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held online via the Linguistic Society of America, on August 16, 2025. This is part two of our conversation on GenAI and linguistics, this time focusing on Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, Ph.D.’s recent book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s...
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Episode #78: User Experience Research for Linguists (LCL Audio)
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “User Experience Research for Linguists”. The moderator is Darrell Penta, and the two panelists are Josh Martin and Midam Kim. In this session, the panelists explore their...
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Episode #77: Erin Kuester
“Don’t be afraid to reach for the job you want” Erin Kuester has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from Ohio University, and is a copywriter and content creator for service businesses, as well as a writing mentor and editor. She is also an experienced instructional designer. She is very...
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Episode #76: Societal Impacts and the Ethical Use of AI (LCL Audio)
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Societal Impacts and the Ethical Use of AI”. The moderator is Aubrie Amstutz, and the two panelists are Patricia McDonough and Alfonso Sánchez-Moya. In this session the…
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Live Linguistics Careeercast August 16 2025 – The AI Con Discussion
Live Linguistics Careercast coming your way on August 16! Join us for part two of our conversation on GenAI and linguistics, this time focusing on Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, Ph.D.’s recent book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.” And we’ll follow the...
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Episode #75: Logan Kearsley
“Software makes me money, but linguistics makes me happy” Logan Kearsley is an experienced software engineer with a history in the education, solar power, and entertainment industries. He earned a BS in Computer Science and an MA in Linguistics, both from Brigham Young University, and is…
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Episode #74: Content Creation – A Path to Alternative Careers (LCL Audio)
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Content Creation – A Path to Alternative Careers”. The presenter is Erin Kuester, who has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from Ohio University, and is a copywriter and...
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Episode #73: Kathryn Hymes
“I’m happy for the winding path that took me to this work” Kathryn Hymes is a technologist and computational linguist, currently serving as a director of product and innovation at Doctors Without Borders. Previously, she worked in leadership positions at multiple technology firms, most recently…
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Episode #72: Tim Durgin
“If you understand why you’re making a career move, then don’t worry about explaining it” Tim Durgin (杜腾飞) is an ATA-certified Chinese-to-English linguist, translator, and analyst based in the Washington DC area. His primary focus is on written translation in several key domains, including video...
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Episode #71: Andy Edmonds
“The buzz in LLMs now is all about training data” Andy Edmonds has an MS in Human Factors, Applied Psychology from Clemson University. He started his working career as a webmaster in 1995 and has since developed a huge breadth of expertise in UX, e-commerce, web analytics, online experimentation,...
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Episode #70: Colette Feehan
“I love the process of directing voice actors – and I never would have found out about it without the internet” Colette Feehan is an audiobook director with a PhD in linguistics who specializes in multi-language books, books with technical jargon, and multi-book series that require maintaining a...
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Mini-pod: Linguists At Work with Lexi Slome
Linguists at Work! This is a special mini-podcast of the Linguistics Careercast called Linguists at Work. It’s a series of 5-minute interviews with career linguists, conducted by grad students in the Georgetown Linguistics program, in which they ask the question: “What’s your job and how did you...
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Episode #69: Live at LingFest 2025
“In tech, I feel like I’m giving a sociolinguistics 101 course once a month” This episode is a recording of a special live episode of the Linguistics Careercast podcast. Our panel of linguists discusses how artificial intelligence (especially Gen AI) is impacting linguistics as a field. We’ll…
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Episode #68: Jyoti Iyer
“Conversation designer jobs are inherently collaborative” Jyoti Iyer earned her PhD in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since then she’s made the journey from theoretical linguistics to expertise in customer-facing language experiences. She is currently employed as a...
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Episode #67: Jobs in Tech (LCL audio)
This episode is titled “Jobs in Tech for Qualitative Researchers and Social Scientists”. Our moderator, Alfonso Sánchez-Moya, guides a discussion with panelists Lex Konnelly and Jyoti Iyer on how backgrounds in linguistics and social sciences can shape innovation and drive meaningful change in…
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Episode #66: Re-Finding Your Career Path (LCL Audio)
This episode is titled “Re-Finding Your Career Path”. Our three panelists, Nancy Frishberg, Emily Pace, and Laurel Sutton share stories of their careers and the decision points that led them to their current situations. This panel emphasizes the importance of always considering your next steps…
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Episode #65: The New Role of Faculty – Advising Linguistics Students (LCL Audio)
This episode is titled “The New Role of Faculty – Advising Linguistics Students”. Did you know that a draft-eligible baseball player has better odds of playing Major League Baseball than a new linguistics PhD has of getting a tenure-line job? In this session, panelists Alex Johnston and Sue…
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Episode #64: Salary and Benefits (LCL Audio)
This episode is titled “Salary and Benefits: Negotiate Like a Pro”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in the Georgetown University Dept. of Linguistics. In this presentation, you will learn how to prepare for the negotiation stage and the…
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Episode #63: Marta Baffy
“The pairing of linguistics and law makes a lot of sense” Marta Baffy is a lawyer and linguist who has over a decade of English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching experience both in the United States and abroad. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University and her JD from the...
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Episode #62: Leveraging LinkedIn (LCL Audio)
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Leveraging LinkedIn: Creating your Profile and Using LinkedIn as a Research Database”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in...
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Episode #61: Carole Chaski
“You need to have a heart of service to do this work” Carole Chaski is a forensic linguist who is considered one of the leading experts in the field. Her research has led to improvements in the methodology and reliability of computational linguistics and inspired research on the use of this...
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Episode #60: Informational Interviews (LCL audio)
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Informational Interviews”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in the Georgetown University Dept. of Linguistics.…
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Episode #59: Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson
“In customer research, if there is any group that’s capacitated to just go out and talk to people, it’s linguists” Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson earned her Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics in a joint program from the University of Arizona in 2019. Her dissertation research was on fandoms – the…
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Episode #58: Effective Resumes (LCL Audio)
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Creating and Tailoring an Effective Resume”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in the Georgetown University Dept. of...
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Episode #57: Networking for Introverts (LCL audio)
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Networking for Introverts”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in the Georgetown University Dept. of Linguistics. In this...
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Episode #56: Christopher Farina
“Are you competent? And are you someone I want to work with? You need to be both” Christopher Farina holds a doctorate in linguistics from the University of South Carolina. He has over 10 years of experience across a wide range of functions in qualitative and quantitative research in applied...
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Episode Guide #55: Minnie Quartey
“Linguists make the best everything” Minnie Quartey is Vice President of Impact & Innovation for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. She earned her PhD in linguistics at Georgetown University and embarked on a career working in the non-profit organization management industry. Her research…
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Episode #54: Elizabeth Briody
“I’d like to see anthropology become a household word again” Elizabeth Briody is an anthropologist who has been involved in cultural-change efforts for over 30 years – first at General Motors Research and later through her own consulting practice, Cultural Keys. She has led many career…
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Episode #53: Andrea Berez-Kroeker and Brendan Regan
“Linguistics has a marketing problem” Andrea Berez-Kroeker is the Linguistics Department Chair at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and an At-Large member of the LSA’s Executive Committee. She is primarily a documentary linguist specializing endangered language preservation. Andrea Berez-Kroeker...
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Episode #52: Taylor Melton
“Build relationships with your coworkers – you don’t have to be friends with them” Taylor Melton is a linguist and educator with over 15 years of international experience in teaching, language consulting, and data-driven research. She earned her Master’s in Linguistics from National Taiwan Normal...
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Episode #51: Serena Williams
“Go work with people in legal fields because they are the ones working on language access” Serena Williams received her PhD from UC Davis. She is a linguistic entrepreneur who leads walking tours, does genealogy research, is writing a textbook, developing K-12 linguistics courses, and is even...
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Linguistics Career Launch 2024 Last Chance!
This is just a reminder that Linguistics Career Launch 2024 is happening SOON – July 15-26, 2024. If you’re a linguist looking for a job outside academia, LCL24 is THE two-week event that will jump start your career journey. LCL events are open to undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs,...
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Episode #50: Peter Benson
“Be open to doing things that are not what you studied in school” Peter Benson received his PhD in linguistics from UC San Diego in 1973, in addition to studying neuroscience, neuropsychology, and computer science. He’s worked on speech recognition, user interface, and artificial intelligence. He...
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Linguistics Career Launch 2024 Promo!
This is just a reminder that Linguistics Career Launch 2024 is happening SOON – July 15-26, 2024. If you’re a linguist looking for a job outside academia, LCL24 is THE two-week event that will jump start your career journey. LCL events are open to undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs,...
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Episode #49: Emily Pace
“It was a wake-up call – my marriage is more important to me than that job” Emily Pace has a breadth of experience across the non-profit, public, and private sectors, including at several technology companies, the National Association of Attorneys General, the Close Up Foundation, and the Library...
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