Built on partnerships.
More Languages Foundation is an independent foundation built on partnerships of speakers, translators, educators, and leaders working together, because the best work in a language is always done with the people who live in it.
Every partner brings decades of experience to that work: lived fluency and cultural knowledge, translation craft, and experience training translators. Together, we focus on more of the world’s languages in professional translation, education, and media.
Meet Our Team
Michael Peck
Mike lived in the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala from 2003 to 2005, where he gained advanced proficiency in Kekchi. He has collaborated daily with native Kekchi speakers ever since, working as a Kekchi translator and interpreter and teaching Kekchi at the university level.
He holds bachelor's degrees in music and linguistics, and a master's degree in linguistics. His professional experience includes training and supervising translators in Guatemala, Nepal, Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, and Indonesia, as well as designing methods and techniques for language acquisition and literacy.
Drawing on his musical background, he has also designed methods for music translation and formed choirs that perform in Kekchi.
Chief Organizational Designer
Patty Gomez
Regional Director
Patricia Gómez Pérez holds a degree in Language and Culture and hails from the community of Tenango, in Ocosingo, Chiapas.
A native speaker of the Tseltal language, she works as a translator—rendering texts from Spanish into Tseltal—and as an educator in the indigenous preschool system.
Her vocation is deeply rooted in the preservation, strengthening, and teaching of the Tseltal language, with the goal of helping more people understand the cultural richness and worldview of indigenous communities. She also takes a keen interest in entrepreneurship and in education as a tool for personal transformation.
Mark Garbett
Sound Director
Mark Hardison Garbett is an award-winning composer, producer, and audio engineer whose work spans alternative rock, film, and television. A classically trained pianist with a Master’s degree in Film Scoring from the University of Southern California, Mark combines a musician’s sensibility with extensive experience in recording, production, mixing, and mastering.
As a founding member of The Moth & The Flame, Mark produced, mixed, and mastered the band’s latest album in its entirety, while also engineering much of the recording, including vocals and guitars. The internationally acclaimed band has amassed over 90 million streams, achieved four Billboard Top 30 singles, and toured alongside Imagine Dragons, Weezer, and Bastille. In 2026, the band won Best Music Video at the Tribeca Festival.
Jonathan Farrell
Video Producer
After earning a degree in animation then a Masters of Art and Design at Savannah College, Jonathan's career began at Pixar Animation Studios later moving to DreamWorks Animation.
Recognitions include director of award winning animation The Munchies along with award winning films: Pajama Gladiator, The Lion and the Mouse, and Kites.
Founder and manager of “Tell Your Story” and “Their Own Tongue” at Scripture Central where he produced and co-wrote “A Marvelous Work” and supervised visual effects supervisor for “The Good Samaritan”.
Currently Jonathan directs and produces independent projects, taking him all over the world where his skill through film celebrate and support more people and more cultures.
Nathan Adamson
Linguist
Nathan is a documentary linguist specializing in Austronesian languages, particularly those of the Philippines. He adopts a community-centered and usage-based approach to language documentation and description, training and empowering community members to achieve their own language goals. This includes building skills in recording, transcription, and language analysis, as well as developing resources for language revitalization and reclamation.
Nathan is currently working on collaborative language documentation projects with communities in the Western Visayas (Philippines) and Palau (Micronesia). This work includes conducting fieldwork to build corpora (annotated collections) of naturally occurring speech, documenting oral traditions such as folktales and music, and comparing grammatical systems across languages and over time.
Nathan is a PhD candidate in linguistics and an instructor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He also volunteers with the Language Documentation Training Center, where he previously served as director. He holds a bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance and a master’s degree in linguistics.