Susan Gehr is an enrolled descendant of the Karuk Tribe, and her family comes from Inaam and Athithúfvuunupma. Formerly a director for the Karuk Tribe’s Language Program, she co-published a dictionary of the Karuk language. She was a member of the SJSU Circle of Learning scholarship program and completed her MLIS in December of 2013. Her MLIS thesis “Breath of Life: Revitalizing California’s Native Languages Through Archives”, was an oral history of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival and a study of the role archivists can have in Native languages revitalization. She is currently a librarian at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California.