Category Archives: Events

In partnership with the Linguistic Society of America Special Interest Group for Linguists Beyond Academia, you are invited to: A professional get-together for career linguists Tuesday, May 7th 6pm Lost & Found Beer Garden 2040 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 763-2040 In a spirit of generosity, curiosity, and with the understanding that our networks […]

We had so much fun with all of the Spring Career Campers this time around, thought it would be fun to have a reunion where anyone who has participated in Career Camp over the years could pop in, say hi, let us know what they are up to these days and hear what everyone else […]

Career Camp is starting soon: A chance to work through Bringing Linguistics to Work in community! Career Camp is designed to help linguists bring language and communication skills to thinking about career. Together, we will find, refine, and practice stories that can be used in the texts and interactions which comprise jobsearching. career camp flyer […]

Fri, March 15, 2019 – 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT Station SL, a coworking community 1455 Hays Street San Leandro, CA 94577   Join us for some invigorating professional development in the form of an interactive and participatory workshop where we will consider story listening, story finding, and story telling as they help you […]

On behalf of the Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group for Linguistics Beyond Academia, Career Linguist is happy to host a professional get-together for  linguists: Tuesday, May 7th 6pm Lost & Found Beer Garden 2040 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 763-2040     Whether you’re currently using your linguistics training in an applied or […]

Calling attention to just two of the wonderful events taking place at the Linguistics Society of America meeting!!  For more information, check out the LSA Facebook page and Twitter feed, the Annual Meeting page, the online schedule and .pdf of the Annual Meeting Handbook. Friday January 4, 3:30-5 pm in Liberty 3 “Linguists in the […]

One of my intentions for 2019 is to apply story finding to shine a light on the often invisible work done by women, in this case the origins of improvisational theater. I wrote this post to call attention to the foundational work done by Viola Spolin as a way to announce my latest workshop, but […]

  For the 6th consecutive year, there will be a number of events at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting (being held in New York City from Jan 3- 7, 2019) focusing on careers (including a panel, a Mixer, mentoring office hours and more), hosted by the Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group (LBA […]

Congratulations to yesterday’s BLx2W raffle winner from the American Anthropological Association’s Careers Expo! Nancy, I will be in touch today to give you  information about how to access your copy  of Bringing Linguistics to Work. Thanks everyone for participating in all of the wonderful conversations about career yesterday – keep ’em up!! Yesterday’s event reminded […]

Headed to the AAA meetings in San Jose next week? Career Linguist Laurel Sutton and I are going to be woman-ing a booth focused on the topic “Linguistics Beyond Academia” at the 13th annual careers expo as part of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meetings. https://lnkd.in/gJVpjFd. Stop by anytime between 11am and 4pm. I […]