Brenda H. Boerger received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, writing on a phonological reconstruction of Proto-Gypsy. She and her family lived in the Solomon Islands on and off for 20 years, where she worked in Natügu [ntu] language development and helped train national and expatriate colleagues in linguistics and Bible translation. She is a consultant for Language and Culture Documentation at SIL Global and a Research Fellow at Dallas International University (DIU). Brenda has twice received 12-month, US government fellowships for Documenting Endangered Languages, one to work on a Natügu [ntu] grammar, published in 2023 and another to work on a dictionary and legacy texts, her current task. She also publishes and lectures on translating the Psalms as poetry and song, both in English, as well as minority languages around the world.