Kris was born, raised and educated in Trinidad and Tobago before entering the PhD program at UCSB. She received her MPhil and BA in Linguistics from the University of the West Indies, St Augustine. For most of the past decade, she has worked with deaf signing communities in the Caribbean mainly in Trinidad and Tobago, Bay Islands (Honduras) and Guyana. She has been involved in various language documentation and archival projects as well as capacity-building for deaf researchers, the creation of pedagogical tools, interpreter training materials and digital storybooks for deaf kids. She is currently working on a digital archive and exhibition of Caribbean sign languages and deaf histories made possible by a grant from the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective. Her latest publications appear in the OUP volumes Inclusion in Linguistics and Decolonizing Linguistics.