Olivia Hirschey Marrese is a linguist based in Boulder, CO. She is currently pursuing her PhD in linguistics at the University of Colorado, where she researches conversations in English and Spanish. Olivia also works in the field of computational linguistics as a data annotator and language data specialist. This summer, I interned at SoundHound Inc. […]
Category Archives: Career Paths for linguists
Book review: How to Be Everything
It’s been a while since we have reviewed a book over here on Career Linguist, but a conversation over on the CL (Mighty) Network today reminded me about how much I appreciated Emilie Wapnick’s book How to Be Everything and I thought I would share some of my thoughts by way of kicking off a summer […]
The Linguist and The Future of Work
Alicia Martinez Miranda – Bio I began formal linguistic training at Georgetown and obtained a M.S. in Sociolinguistics. During my time at Georgetown, I worked as a graduate researcher on a DARPA grant initiative to improve cross cultural communication in military settings. From there, I worked in New York in healthcare advertising on ethnographic, dialogue, […]
Mackenzie Price at the campfire
Mackenzie Price talks with us about how she works as a researcher and discourse analyst in the work that she does with the FrameWorks Institute, where she helps advocates tell more powerful stories about their issues, or as she puts it “guide them through a process of thinking about how the language that they […]
Hannah Phinney at the campfire
Hannah gives great perspective for anyone embarking on a new career, from the perspective of someone who has just started a new job herself, not just 4 months ago. The conversation begins with a glimpse of a day in the life on the Bixby project at Samsung Research America – whose goal is to […]
Julia McAnallen at the campfire
Thank you Julia for sharing a beautifully inspiring story of “leap and the net will appear.” Our conversation began with some great insight into the day-to-day of data analysis. Julia shared some concrete examples which demonstrate the value of social listening – a subset of the textual analyses involved in market analysis – including some […]
Mackenzie Price will join us at the campfire 10/27
Our guest next Friday at the campfire will be Mackenzie Price, telling us about her work at the FrameWorks Institute, where she works with social change advocates to change the public conversation about their issues! this is how she describes the work on LinkedIn: As an experienced strategic communications researcher, trainer, and consultant, I work […]
Serena Williams at the campfire
Thank you to Serena and to guest host Jen Polk of From PhD to Life for a wonderfully elucidating campfire conversation. We began with an exploration of localization, or work in culturally relevant translation! Serena gave us some great illustrative examples and in-depth exploration of the skills that are needed to work as a […]
Greg Bennett at the Campfire
Great information for career linguists about how to get started in the world of UX research – thank you Greg for going above and beyond for your users (and for us)! 🙂 Resources from Greg: First of all his, excellent website: http://www.gabennett.com/resources and then a site developed by salesforce that gives the foundational principles for […]
Nick Gaylord at the Campfire
Thank you Nick Gaylord for a tremendous conversation about how you navigated a career path amidst the world of things “structured and systematic, yet abstract and confusing” Nick gives career linguists some rich insight into the value of the skills and abilities we possess including that we are: uniquely good at constructing representative data sets; […]
