Seaira Lett

Seaira Lett has a B.A. in Spanish and linguistics from Emory University and a Master of Education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Seaira’s research interests include language documentation and indigenous languages of Latin America. Her focus is on the morphosyntax of Chuj, a Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala. She currently collects data with a community of speakers in the US.

Seaira also previously served as a kindergarten teacher at a dual-language school in Kansas City, MO, where she taught core subjects in Spanish and English.