Name: Doyeon Kang
Project: Wintu Placename Project
Bio: Doyeon/Toyon is an undergraduate student majoring in Linguistics and Anthropology. She is passionate about language revitalization, ethnolinguistics, and Indigenous pedagogy, with research interests in the Uto-Nahuatl and Panoan language families. As a research apprentice in UC Berkeley’s Linguistics Research Apprentice Practicum (LRAP), she worked with Traditional New Mexican Spanish interviews from the NMCOSS corpus, correcting AI-generated transcriptions and annotating features in Praat and ELAN. Since Spring 2025, she has also been contributing to the Wintu Placename Project under Isaac Lindsay, which draws on ethnographic and archival sources to build a GIS database of traditional Wintu place names, cultural sites, and narratives. Doyeon is also an artist and graphic designer, and has utilized her artistic skills at UC Berkeley with communities such as the Bald Hills Wintu and Picuris Pueblo.