STUDENT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF
My name is Jean-Max (Max for short!). I’m a Basque-American from San Francisco and a current senior at UCLA. My grandparents were from Bidarrai and Makea in Baxenabarra, and I grew up in the San Francisco Basque Community dancing at the picnics and attending udaleku. Since graduating from high school, I have had a passion for researching Basque Linguistics and Basque Names, subjects which I have made presentations about with the BEO.
WHY THE BEO?
I love every letter in the acronym for BEO, I love being Basque, I love teaching others about the wonders of being Basque, and I love contributing to Basque organizations, so when the opportunity arose to join the BEO Brainstormer’s Board, I immediately jumped!