Gabriela Pérez Báez is Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Oregon. She directs the Language Revitalization Lab and co-directs the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages. Gabriela’s research focuses on linguistic diversity and strategies to sustain it. She has worked to document, analyze and revitalize Zapotec languages in her native Mexico and published numerous works including the La Ventosa Diidxazá Lexico-botanical Dictionary. Gabriela holds a doctorate in linguistics from the University at Buffalo and is the recipient of the 2019 Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America.