Advisory Board members
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Adam Yeo
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Anushah Hossain
Font creation, design, or development
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Chuck Haberl
Font creation, design, or development
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Gerald Roche
Font creation, design, or development
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Hrant Papazian
Font creation, design, or development
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Johannes Bergerhausen
Font creation, design, or development
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Maung Ting Nyeu (မောင်တင်ညို)
Font creation, design, or development
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Olgierd Uziemblo
Font creation, design, or development
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Samar Sinha
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Satdeep Gill
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Thomas Huot-Marchand
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Vyshantha Simha
Font creation, design, or development
Core Team
Tim Brookes
President
Tim Brookes has an M.A. from Oxford University. He founded the Endangered Alphabets Project in 2009, and is the author of Endangered Alphabets and The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets. He is recognized as the world’s leading figure in script endangerment and revitalization.
Pippa Steele
Vice-President for Research
Pippa is a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, where she directs the VIEWS project (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems) and the Endangered Writing Research Network. She has published widely on languages and writing systems of the ancient Mediterranean and theoretical approaches to writing, and has been the recipient of large grants from the ERC and UKRI.
Alana Brown
Vice-President for Communications and Network Development
Alana obtained her BA in Linguistics at the end of 2023. During her studies, her main interest became endangered languages, and she hopes to attend graduate school for language documentation and revitalization. It was also during this time that she became aware of Tim’s work with the Endangered Alphabets Project, and she began interning with him in 2024.
Esteban Kong
Chief Technical Officer
Esteban has worked for several technology focused companies such as BCG, Accenture, and Amazon, gathering more than 15 years of experience in digital products development. Lately he is been involved in Extended Reality (XR) projects which speaks to his innovative approach to technology and how it can have a positive social impact.
Co-founders and Co-hosts of the network
The VIEWS project (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems)
The VIEWS project is based at the University of Cambridge and run by Pippa Steele, following a successful bid for an ERC Consolidator Grant (now underwritten by the UKRI, grant no. EP/X028240/1). VIEWS uses innovative, interdisciplinary research methods to better understand visual properties of writing, from its component features to its role in display and visual culture. While initial case studies focused on historical systems (from cuneiform and the Greek and Phoenician alphabets to Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs), the project remit has grown to include a particular emphasis on minority scripts of the present day. The project publishes research and holds regular seminars and conferences on a broad range of topics.
Website: https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/
Social media:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxj3mZLZnwvYpmLrvzwVGjA
https://www.instagram.com/views_project_cambridge/
https://bsky.app/profile/viewsproject.bsky.social
https://x.com/crewsproject
The Endangered Writing Research Network
The Endangered Writing Research Network was founded by Pippa in 2023 with an aim of bringing together people from many different backgrounds to tackle the marginalisation and endangerment of minority scripts, both traditional heritage systems and more recently developed emergent scripts. Participants come from both inside and outside of academia, working in areas including theoretical writing research, fieldwork, linguistics, type design and digitisation, art and calligraphy, language activism and many more. The network hosts a lively discussion forum on Discord.
Website: https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/endangered-writing-network/