Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (Ayutla Mixe, Oaxaca) is a Mexican linguist, writer, translator, language rights activist and researcher working primarily with Spanish and Ayuujk (known as Mixe in Spanish). Gil is known for her publication ‘Nunca más un México sin Nosotros’ (‘Never Again a Mexico Without Us: Indigenous Nations and Autonomy’), an essay in which she argued that ‘Mexico is not a single nation but a state in which many nations exist, oppressed’. In 2021 she joined with actor Gael García Bernal to make the documentary series El Tema that cover some of the most urgent matters related to the climate crisis in Mexico.

Residency Term

2022