Felicity Meakins (FASSA, FAHA) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland. She is a non-Indigenous field linguist who specialises in the documentation of First Nations languages in northern Australia and the effect of English on these languages. She has worked as a community linguist as well as an academic over the past 20 years, facilitating language revitalisation programs, consulting on Native Title claims and conducting research into First Nations languages. Felicity has compiled a number of dictionaries and grammars, and has written numerous papers on language change in Australia.