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2024-2025 Staff

Jean Pierre Etcheverry
Writer

Jean Pierre Etcheverry

Jean Pierre Etcheverry is a Basque-American student at UCLA majoring in Political Science and minoring in History. He is a member of the Kern County Basque Club, where he plays in the klika and occasionally plays txistu for the...

William Douglass speaks at dedication of Center of Basque Studies
Author

William A. Douglass

William A. Douglass is one of the founders and former director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada Reno. He is one of the foremost experts in Basque Studies in the United States. He retired from the university...

Man in Basque beret and Basque scarf
Writer

Michael McCay

Michael McCay is an engineer who lives with his family in Southern California. He previously lived in the Basque Country for 15 years and he travels there frequently. He calls himself "a lifelong pintxo afficionado." Noting that...

Dr. Pedro Oiarzabal. Man with hand on chin
Writer

Dr. Pedro J. Oiarzabal

Pedro J. Oiarzabal is the Director of Social Innovation Research at Arima Social Lab. He specializes in Basque Diaspora and Media Studies, and Oral History and Digital Humanities. Currently, he is the principal investigator with...

Artist and writer Zoe Bray
Writer

Zoe Bray

Zoe Bray is a portrait painter, illustrator and writer living in Reno, Nevada, who hails from the village of Izura in Baxe Nafarroa. She regularly contributes cartoons to the Basque weekly Herria and articles to the French Basque...

woman's face. Monica Orbe
Writer

Monica Orbe

Monica is a multimedia journalist who graduated from Northwestern University with a Master's in Journalism. She received dual bachelor's degrees from University of Southern California in film production and psychology.

Mikaela Goicoechea
Writer

Mikaela Goicoechea

Mikaela Goicoechea currently holds the position of Music Programs Director for the North American Basque Organizations (NABO) and has also served as Udaleku’s Singing Instructor. She is a Rock Springs, Wyoming native, but recently...

Chloe Arambel
Writer

Chloe Arambel

(2017) Chloe Arambel is a student at Syracuse University studying French and International Relations. She has been an active participant in the Chino Basque dance groups since a young age, and is currently in the dance group...

Robert J. Lopez
Writer

Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez is a veteran journalist who has covered a variety of stories across the U.S. and Latin America. See Lopez' website, LAJourno.

Mitchell Handler
Writer

Mitchell Handler

(Euskal Kazeta from 2013 to 2014) Mitchell Handler is a student at the University of California, Berkeley double majoring in political science and media studies. He works for the campus' student newspaper, Daily Californian, where he has reported on news r...

Ander Egiluz Beramendi
Writer

Ander Egiluz Beramendi

(Euskal Kazeta 2014 - 2017) Ander Egiluz Beramendi of Leioa, Bizkaia is a graduate in Journalism of the University of the Basque Country and has developed his career mainly in the Culture section of newspapers, magazines, and...

Jose Mallea. Photo: UNR Reno.
Writer

Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe

Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe is a writer and former associate professor at University of Nevada, Reno. He has done extensive research on Basque carvings on aspen trees in the West and is the author of "Speaking through the Aspens." ...

Pierre Igoa
Webmaster and writer

Pierre Igoa

Pierre is an artist, webmaster and filmmaker and one of the initial founders of Euskal Kazeta. He lives in Bakersfield. He also has a website on Etsy, Basque Roots, where he sells original posters and paintings....

Steve Bass
Historian

Steve Bass

Read our obituary about Bass. Steve Bass is a historian based out of Bakersfield, California. He is the co-author of "The Basques of Kern County." Update: Bass passed away on June 16, 2022....

Author Nancy Zubiri holding the book "Jaialdi: A Celebration of Basque Culture"
Editor

Nancy Zubiri

I have been writing about the U.S. Basque community for many years. I retired from teaching English at Venice High School in Los Angeles in 2020, after 21 years. I now dedicate much of my free time to my work as editor of Euskal Kaz...

Photographer

Linda Iriart

Linda Iriart is an occasional photographer for Euskal Kazeta and has her own photography business and website, Picsbylinda.com. She is based in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif....