Hamid Ouyachi is a native of the Goulmima region in southeast Morocco. A former Chief Technology Officer & Technology Program Director in the US Public Sector, Ouyachi is a translator and a writer, working between Tamazight (Berber), English, and French. His texts have appeared in Rusted Radishes and Tamazgha Studies Journal. Ouyachi writes a blog about Tamazight-related language, culture, poetry, and translation.