Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson is the founding director and President of Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Dr. Anderson is the author of 10 books and over 75 academic articles. He has worked with communities on all the inhabited continents, especially with disenfranchised minority speech communities in Siberia and India, as well as NIgeria, Bolivia, and the United States. Living Tongues Institute works to promote continued or renewed use of threatened indigenous minority languages and public awareness about the looming global language extinction crisis, as well as help produce scientifically solid documentation of vanishing languages, to serve as a record for their heritage speech communities and the community of scientists as a whole. He has developed a new model to map global language endangerment trends and offered a programmatic call to arms for all activist-linguists through the Global Language Hotspots list. His work was the subject of the film "The Linguists" that premiered in January 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival.