Maialen Goirizelaia Altuna
Maialen Goirizelaia is a Ph.D. student at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. She has an undergraduate in Advertisement and Public Relations (2011) and a graduate in International Studies (2012), both from the University of the Basque Country. After finishing her undergraduate she has been working in a Basque local Television for a year and in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Basque Government (2015) working with the Basque Communities abroad. That topic has always been an interesting topic for her and, because of that, she is now doing her dissertation about the Communication between the Basque Country and the Basque Diaspora in the United States and the effect of those Diaspora communities in order to create relations between the Host Country and the Country of Origin. She is member of Bitartez, a Consolidated Research Group of the Basque Government.