Janne Underriner

Ph.D., University of Oregon (2002)
Email: jlu@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-3199
Website: (no website currently available)

Janne Underriner is the director of the Northwest Indian Language Institute. She has been active with language preservation issues in the Northwest since 1996 when she began working with Elders in the Klamath Tribes' language project developing curriculum and teaching materials for their community and schools. She co-founded the Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI) in 1997.  Underriner assists the tribes in developing language programs, curriculum, assessment and teaching materials. She worked with the Tribes to develop the NW Indian Language Benchmarks in 2000. She is a grant writer of language and educational projects for the Tribes and for NILI. Underriner is a consultant to Oregon's Department of Education.
Her languages of research are Klamath, Tolowa and Chinuk Wawa.