“Linguists make the best everything”
Minnie Quartey is Vice President of Impact & Innovation for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. She earned her PhD in linguistics at Georgetown University and embarked on a career working in the non-profit organization management industry. Her research has been featured on the front page of the Washington Post, she has been a guest on NPR, and she was the primary field researcher for the first publicly accessible Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL) funded by the National Science Foundation.
Minnie’s LCL21 panels: Being Black and Successful Beyond the Academy, and Linguists in Non-Profit Organizations
Topics include
– sociolinguistics
– storytelling
– data management
– networking
– non-profits
– disabilities
– adjuncting
– organization management
– non-linear paths
