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Monika Madinabeitia is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences (Mondragon University). She is currently the co-coordinator of the recently launched degree Global Digital Humanities, which is located in Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao. She published the illustrated book Petra, My Basque Grandmother in 2018. Her main research areas are identity and e/migration, with an emphasis on the Basque American diaspora in the US West. Her teaching mainly focuses on culture and identity. She has been teaching Basque Culture to international students since 2007 and has participated in different courses and lectures held by Etxepare Institute. Madinabeitia was the guest lecturer at this year´s Eloise Garmendia Chair (2021) and was also one of the main organizers of the international seminar UniverCity: Educating For and With the City, in Bilbao (2019). She is now working on the second edition of UniverCity.

She holds a PhD in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and is a lecturer at the University of the Basque Country. She previously holds a degree in Advertising and Public Relations and a Masters in Social Communication. She has been a Visiting Researcher at the Public University of New York and in Ireland, at the University of Limerick. Her research has focused on minority languages and feminism; the main research topics have been bilingual advertising and patriarchal regeneration mechanisms. She currently leads a team that studies language branding. On the other hand, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of Berria Group. She is an activist of various social movements and also works as a political analyst in the Basque media: Argia, ETB1, ETB2, Euskadi Irratia and Hamaika TB among others. In addition, in his professional career, she has been a communications consultant for various companies and public administration.

A graduate in Communication Sciences and trained in management she has held positions of responsibility in both communication and cultural management. She began her career as an editor and broadcaster at Herri Irratia. From 1996 to 1999 she was responsible for Promotion and Dissemination at Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, and for eight years she was responsible for Communication and Editorial at Syntorama. Between 2008 and 2012 she was Coordinator and Director of Culture in the City Council of Tolosa. Since 2012 she has been part of the team of the Etxepare Basque Institute, where she was first Head of Communication and later directed the area of Promotion and Dissemination of Basque Culture. Since January 2018 she has been the General Manager of the Etxepare Basque Institute. In recent years she has led the institution's strategic projects in cultural diplomacy and has represented Basque culture in numerous international forums, such as the European Culture Forum (Milan, 2017).

Monika Madinabeitia is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences (Mondragon University). She is currently the co-coordinator of the recently launched degree Global Digital Humanities, which is located in Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao. She published the illustrated book Petra, My Basque Grandmother in 2018. Her main research areas are identity and e/migration, with an emphasis on the Basque American diaspora in the US West. Her teaching mainly focuses on culture and identity. She has been teaching Basque Culture to international students since 2007 and has participated in different courses and lectures held by Etxepare Institute. Madinabeitia was the guest lecturer at this year´s Eloise Garmendia Chair (2021) and was also one of the main organizers of the international seminar UniverCity: Educating For and With the City, in Bilbao (2019). She is now working on the second edition of UniverCity.

Ingeles Filologian lizentziatu zen EHUn. Azken urtea Fort Lewis College-n egin ondoren (Colorado, AEB), EHUn Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings (LAMS) masterra egin zuen. Doktorego-tesian ingelesaren presentzia aztertu zuen EHUn, Jasone Cenoz eta Durk Gorterren zuzendaritzapean. Tartean, hiru hilabeteko egonaldia egin zuen Sabhal Mòr Ostaig gaeliko bidezko unibertsitatean (Eskozia). Mondragon Unibertsitatean urtebetez lan egin eta gero, Bortzirietako Euskara Mankomunitatean aritu zen euskara teknikari. 2016an Parisko Sorbona Unibertsitatean jadun zuen euskara irakurle, Etxepare Institutuaren eskutik. Orain EHUn dabil irakasle eta ikertzaile, Euskal Hizkuntza eta Komunikazioa Sailean.

Alemaniako matematika industrialetako Fraunhofer institutuan lanean aritu eta ingenieritza informatikoan lizentziatua, Urtzi Odriozola (Zarautz - 1986) CodeSyntax enpresako kidea da gaur egun. Eibarren kokatutako enpresa hau software garapenean eta interneteko zerbitzuetan espezializatuta dago, bereziki euskararen presentzia teknologikoa sustatzen duten proiektuetan. Urtzik, ibilbide profesionala teknologia digitalen munduan garatu du, batez ere web garapenarekin, datu irekiekin edota software librearekin lotutako proiektuetan parte hartzen baitu. Teknologiaren aplikazio praktikoan eta tresna digitalen garapenean 12 urtetik gorako esperientzia du. Gaur egun, adimen artifizialeko garapen libreetan oinarritutako proiektuetan ere lanean ari da eta lehen itzultzaile neuronal librea, LibreTranslate, euskaraz kaleratzeko lanetan parte hartu du.

Humanitateetan lizentziaduna Mondragon Unibertsitatean, eta Sorkuntza eta Diseinuko graduduna Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatean. Bere lan ibilbidearen hastapenak kooperatiben eta euskalgintzaren arloan izan ziren, eta azken hamarkadan kultur kudeaketara bideratu du bere jarduna. 2014tik aurrera Bilboko Consonni arte ekoiztetxe eta argitaletxean aritu zen, nagusiki kudeaketa arloko lanak burutuz. 2019an berriz San Telmo Museora batu zen, aldi baterako erakusketen arduradun moduan. 2022tik aurrera Tabakalerako Programazio arloaren koordinazioan aritu zen bi urtez. Azkenik, 2024az geroztik San Telmo Museoan ari da berriro, oraingoan bitartekaritza arduradun moduan. Bere lana jarduera eta proiektuen arloan kokatzen da nagusiki, beste batzuen artean euskararen inguruko proiektuak barne hartzen dituena.

Jaime Otamendi Informazio Zientzietan lizentziatua da EHUn (1989). EITBn egin zuen ibilbide profesional luzea, bai irratian bai telebistan kazetari gisa (1989-2015), eta tarte horretan Albistegien Zuzendari ere izan zen (1999-2009). 2015etik Donostia Kultura erakundeko Zuzendari Kudeatzaile da, kultura kudeaketan eta politiketan ekarpen garrantzitsuak eginez.