Summary
Guillem Belmar Viernes has been involved in documentation, revitalization and language justice efforts led by speakers of Mesoamerican Indigenous languages in diaspora communities on the West Coast of the US (JSILO; Mitientsi kuajperakuechani; Conoce tus Derechos) as well as language empowerment in Catalonia (Col·lectiu l'Escambell), actively engaging in community-based participatory action and community-led and community-informed participatory research. Together with community members and other researchers, he organized a special session at the 2023 Annual Meeting of SSILA, which included a workshop on turning ELAN transcriptions into illustrated, printable storybooks. He has managed the Ka’vi Sa’an Savi project together with Jeremías Salazar, turning fieldwork recordings into storybooks and working with five Mixtec artists to illustrate the stories. As a result of this project, he has co-edited a volume of illustrated stories in Mixtepec Mixtec, which includes audiovisual supplementary material. He presented the project and reflections at the 2025 International Conference on the Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages at the University of Kyoto, gave an online workshop for the 3er Seminario Internacional de Educación Básica en Contextos Interculturales hosted at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, and hosted three community events to present and share the book, two in Mixtepec (Oaxaca) and one in Goleta (California). He participated in CoLang 2016 as an M.A. student. Guillem is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Oregon, where he is also affiliated with the Language Teaching Studies Master Program and co-directs the ROOTS Lab (Revitalization, Documentation, Collaboration and Transmission).