Terryl Asla’s grandparents immigrated to the United States from the Basque Country in the early 20th century and settled in Eastern Oregon. A distant cousin to Miguel de Unamuno, Asla is an author and illustrator. His award-winning...

Juliette Camou is currently studying International Business at California State University, Bakersfield, with plans to continue her education in the MBA program. She previously earned her bachelor's degree in International Bu...

Born and raised in the Basque Country, Eukene Franco-Landa is a sociolinguist who began researching the intersection of language variation and identity during her doctoral studies at the University of Miami. Today, she teaches...

Lorea Laverty Iturriria is a student at Cal State Bakersfield who is interning at Euskal Kazeta. She is a music major.

Robin Keuneke is the author of "The Iberian Table," a cookbook and memoir full of expert culinary and health tips. She is a a celebrated natural foods chef and health author. Buy Keuneke's The Iberian Table....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

(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...

(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...

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 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....

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....