Mam

Since 2019, I have been on a team of educators and activist teaching and developing Mam language classes. Find out about the class and view all class materials here: [mamclass.com]

Mam in the press

UC Berkeley Social Sciences Matrix.  Language Revitalization in Oakland: A Visual Interview with Tessa Scott  (August 2023)

UC Berkeley News. Keeping alive our Indigenous cultures on Mother Language Day. (February 2022)

ALMG - Mam: Entrevista a Henry Sales y Lucrecilla Carillo.  (October 2021)

Berkeley Center for Latin Amerian Studies (CLAS) Blog Post: Qo xnaq’tzan tuj tzalajb’il tu’ntzan tjaw ch’iw qchwinqlal: We teach with happiness for a better future. (April 2021)

SF Cronicle: 'We are invisible.' Coronavirus just made census counting harder in Bay Area. (April 2020) 

The New Yorker: A translation Crisis at the border. (January 2020) 

KQED: Do you Speak Mam? Growth of Oakland's Guatemalan Community Sparks Interest in Indigenous Language (July 2019)

KALW: Oakland-Raised Maya are bridging the Mam language gap in local courts (April 2019)