Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda (1937 – 25 January 2020) was a Kusunda community elder from Nepal.

She was interviewed widely by linguists and other scholars in an effort to document the Kusunda language.

[5] She and her mother and sister spoke Kusunda until Thakuri's death in 1985, after which Khatri moved to India for work.

In 2010, the Tribhuvan University ran a language documentation and preservation programme by inviting both Sen-Kusunda and Sen-Khatri to Kathmandu, but the project stalled due to shortage of funds.

Rana, Brian Houghton Hodgson, David E. Watters, Johan Reinhard, Madhav Prasad Pokharel and Uday Raj Aaley for the documentation of the Kusunda language.