Gorka Basterretxea Santiso is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics who joined the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Georgetown University in 2018. His main interests include sociolinguistics, dialectology, language contact and variation, and bilingualism. Originally from the Basque Country, he completed his B.A. in English Studies at Universidad de Salamanca (2016) and M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics at Illinois State University (2018). He also holds a M.S. in Hispanic Linguistics at Georgetown University. He completed a study abroad program at Trinity College Dublin during his third year of the B.A. Gorka is also the Assistant Director in the Spanish Language Program for the intermediate level and he is involved at Georgetown as the co-chair for the annual conference GRAPHSY 2021 and the founder of the Basque Coffee Hour (Euskeraren ordua).