Episode 111: My Conversation with Yazmin Novelo - MING Disappearing Worlds

Yazmín Yadira Novelo Montejo received her Master in Sociolinguistics from Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia. She is a graduate in Social Communication from Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida, México and formed in Revitalization of Native Languages and Identities from the University of Mondragón in the Basque Country. Previously, she was associate professor at the Autonomous University of Yucatán and the Autonomous University of Mexico, ENES-Yucatán headquarters. She specializes in the revitalization of native languages and identities through cultural production and the media. She is a founding member of Yúuyum Radio and musical projects in the Mayan language. She is currently director of the U Péekbal Waye', a project which works for Mayan language revitalization. She collaborates as a mentor in linguistic revitalization with Endangered Languages Project and also co-directs the Nojolo'on Community Center for Peace in Peto, Yucatán, a space for citizen activation for Peace and NonViolence.