Joshua L. Martin (University of Florida) is a linguist who has researched the intersection of language, race, and technology, particularly linguistic bias against African American Language in automatic speech recognition systems. His recent work includes “Bias in automatic speech recognition: The case of African American Language” (with Kelly E. Wright), “Understanding Racial Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition: The Case of Habitual ‘Be’” and “Spoken Corpora Data, Automatic Speech Recognition, and Bias Against African American Language: The case of Habitual 'Be'”. Martin can be reached at joshua.martin@ufl.edu.

Kelly Elizabeth Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a Black Biracial cisgender woman from Appalachia. She is an experimental sociolinguist researching linguistic racism across institutions through mixed methodologies including perceptual experimentation, machine learning, and ethnographic fieldwork. Her recent work includes “Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes”. She is also a contributing editor to American Speech's Among the New Words column. Wright can be reached at kewright4@wisc.edu.