I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. My areas of interest are language documentation, revitalization, archiving best practices, pedagogical material and curriculum design, and decolonization frameworks. I am particularly interested in how, as linguists, we can use archives and their materials as a tool to aid communities in their goals of language revitalization. I believe that linguists have an obligation to empower the communities they work with, should tailor their projects and research for those communities, and ensure that research they do ultimately leads to useful, real world applicable materials for those communities.