Jeff Edwards has been employed by the Cherokee Nation for 17 years and has always worked to help preserve the Cherokee language. For the past nine years, as a language technologist, he has been working with large tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple to ensure the Cherokee language is represented on their phones, tablets and operating systems. The Cherokee Nation is the only native tribe to have their language — the Cherokee Syllabary — on a phone and tablet, and the graphical user interface of Windows entirely in the Cherokee language.