Ryan DeCaire is Kanien’kehá:ka and was born and raised in Wáhta Mohawk Territory, Ontario. Ryan is a Kanien’kéha (Mohawk language) revitalization practitioner, teacher, and learner and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto as well as an instructor and curriculum developer at Onkwawenna Kentyohwa adult immersion in Ohswé:ken (Six Nations, Ontario). His work focuses on adult language acquisition and use in Indigenous language revitalization, and specifically on adult immersion programming in the development of advanced speaking adults of Kanien’kéha. Ryan received his Phd from Ka Haka ʻUla Keʻelikōlani, the College of Hawaiian Language, in Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization at University of Hawai‘i at Hilo.