Julie Hochgesang, Ph.D., is an associate professor of linguistics at Gallaudet University. She is a Deaf linguist who works on documentation of signed languages and ethics of working with signed language communities, making linguistics accessible to them. Hochgesang has contributed to ongoing efforts to create accessible collections for the ASL communities, such as Sign Language Annotation and the Archiving and Sharing project. This led to the creation of ASL Signbank, a publicly accessible website of signs linked to ID glosses to be used for annotation of ASL video datasets.