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Multimedia artist and book designer Victoria Rocío Esquivel Roca is beginning her final year toward a degree in Anthropology at Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco. She states: “My book design and community promotion projects seek to create spaces where this language can flourish and be valued in contemporary contexts. Through books, I want to explore ways of articulating Quechua with visual and textual narratives that invite its preservation and revitalization. In community projects, my intention is to co-create via respect and listening, promoting Quechua as a means of expression, reflection and empowerment.”

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Carlos Flores Quispe entered his third year of graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Fall 2024, where he is working toward a doctorate degree in second language acquisition and applied linguistics. Carlos previously completed a bachelor’s degree in Quechua and English languages at the Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, second oldest university in the Americas and has also won undergraduate fellowships to University of Arizona and a pre-degree in Sociology, granted by the University of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic where he also taught a Quechua workshop. He loves singing, dancing, graphic and audiovisual design.

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María del Carmen Bolívar Gonzáles Prada is completing a Master’s degree program in Applied Linguistics/Language Education at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia in Spring of 2026. She has begun to meet the urgent need for teaching in and of indigenous languages, running a well-attended motivational series for Quechua-speaking university students in Cochabamba with seed funding from FunProEIB Andes. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics Applied to Language Teaching from the Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, with diplomas from the same university, one in Intra and Intercultural Educational Management and the other in Research for Intercultural Higher Education, and both of her final papers have been published. She has also worked as a trainer and monitor of teacher preparation programs in the area of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language for the Ministries of Education of both Bolivia and Peru, and has worked as a language teacher and independent language researcher and translator.

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