People & Governance

Executive Team & Advisory Council

The Hmar Heritage Foundation operates through a structured 4-role executive team, an Advisory Council of community elders and scholars in formation, and open volunteer contributors.

Category I · Operational Leadership

Executive Team & Operational Leads

Donal Muolhoi

Active

Founder, Project Lead & Data Architect

Foundation administration, hmar.page web infrastructure, dataset formatting in i18n JSON, PO, and XLIFF formats, and managing Hugging Face dataset mirrors.

Ephriam Pena

Active

Field Operator & Collector

Collecting physical books, rare manuscripts, folk songbooks, and oral history recordings from villages, elders, and personal libraries.

Stephen Huolngo

Active

Digitization Specialist

Operating high-resolution overhead book scanners and archival cameras, processing page scans into clean PDFs for library.hmar.page.

Editorial & Quality Control Lead

Open Position

Grammar & Wikipedia Incubator Lead

Verifying Hmar spelling and orthography, authoring 10 weekly lead-section articles on Wikimedia Incubator, and reviewing dictionary entries.

Category II · Institutional & Advisory Governance

Advisory Council & Scholar Network · In Formation

The Foundation is forming an Advisory Council comprising respected community elders, educators, linguistic scholars, and institutional representatives to guide orthographic standards, dictionary consensus, and cultural preservation.

As formal outreach and consultations proceed in 2026, confirmed advisory members and partner liaisons will be listed here upon official endorsement.

Interested in serving on the Executive Team or Advisory Council?connect with the foundation