Indigenous Languages Program Coordinator
About
Ed is a technologist and graphic designer interested in human languages, cultures, and writing systems. He brings many years of experience as a software engineer and consultant in a number of industries and knowledge domains, including health care, open-source software, typography, and applied linguistics.
In 2015, he began studying modern Huastecan Nahuatl with Mstro. Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ) through our LACS program. A few years later in 2017, he had the opportunity to work with Dr. Stephanie Wood, director of the Wired Humanities Projects at the University of Oregon, and Dr. Gordon Whittaker of the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany, on the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Writing project where he served as the project technologist. Since then, he has continued to pursue his interest in modern Nahua language and culture during additional study trips to Mexico, including in the summer of 2019 where he had the opportunity to learn and teach for a month in a small Nahua community in the northern part of the state of Veracruz.
At LACS, Ed works on LCTL promotional efforts both on campus and more broadly in partnership with other Centers for Latin American Studies across the US.
