Co-PI,
Central Connecticut State University
Associate Professor in the Department of English/Linguistics
Specializes in syntax and semantics and acquisition of Sign Languages; teaches courses in multilingualism and additional language acquisition
www2.ccsu.edu/faculty/elena.koulidobrova
Co-PI,
University of Illinois-Chicago
Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies.
Specializes in bilingual syntax, heritage language acquisition and development, indigenous languages, revitalization and reclamation.
Keyra Colón
Research Assistant. ESOL Teacher. Graduate student of Language Policies and Planning in Central Connecticut State University.
Jefferson Imbaquingo
PhD student in Hispanic linguistic program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Research assistant in the Bilingualism Lab and teaching assistant in the Heritage Language Program. Has worked with Ecuadorian indigenous communities creating culturally appropriate material in indigenous languages in Ecuador.
Melizabeth Santos
Research Assistant. PhD student in Curriculum and Instruction at University of Illinois at Chicago. Faculty lecturer in the School of Education at Dominican University.
Lidia Aguilera
Hispanic Linguistics PhD student at University of Illinois at Chicago, with a focus on language and identity. Language instructor and research assistant at the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Coordinator in the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program.
Cesar de la Cruz
Social Communicator and Educator. Professor of Quechua in The Center of Studies of Native and Foreign Languages and in the National University of Altiplano, Puno, Perú.
Gésica Pérez Rodríguez
Iskonawa-born student in the National Intercultural University of the Amazon, Perú. Primary School Bilingual Teacher. Promoter of the Revitalization of the Iskonawa language.
Collaborators
Bersi Macedo
Quechua-born educator. Specializes in Intercultural Bilingual Education and Rights of Native Communities. Interests in Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Research.
Danny Chávez
Linguist, Translator and interpreter recognized by the the Ministry of Culture of Peru. Teacher of Shipibo-Konibo.
Braulio Quispe
Translator and transcriber who has education studies at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and experience in dictating the Quechua language.
Cesar de la Cruz
Social Communicator and Educator. Professor of Quechua in The Center of Studies of Native and Foreign Languages and in the National University of Altiplano, Puno, Perú.
Gésica Pérez Rodríguez
Iskonawa-born student in the National Intercultural University of the Amazon, Perú. Primary School Bilingual Teacher. Promoter of the Revitalization of the Iskonawa language.
Collaborators
Fernando Ortega Pérez
Marleen Haboud Bumachar
A doctor, anthropologist and health practitioner, he is a professor-researcher in medicine, nutrition, dentistry, public health and community health at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. His areas of interest are: anthropology of health and nutrition, social epidemiology, ethnomedicine, ethnobotany, and ethnopharmacology. He raises the importance of evaluating the risks of cardiovascular diseases in urban communities and its relationship with overweight and obesity, a real pandemic, as important as that of COVID.
In addition to having completed two post-doctoral stays in Europe and the United States, she has a Ph.D in Linguistics/Sociolinguistics from the University of Oregon (United States), a Master's in Anthropology (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and a BA in Linguistics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. She is the creator of the Oralidad Modernidad interdisciplinary research program and its different projects (www.oralidadmodernidad.org). She has specialized both in the study of the indigenous languages spoken in Ecuador with which she develops community projects of active documentation-revitalization; as well as in the analysis of Ecuadorian Andean Spanish.
Rosa Guamán Loja
"I am a 46-year-old indigenous consultant and single mother to 2 children. I live in the Juncal community in Cañar, Ecuador. I have worked for more than 8 years in conversation class in Kichwa at various level of instructions: primary, secondary and collage.
I have collaborated with the research program Oralidad Modernidad with administering and conducting interviews, material translation and transcriptions, and with consultancy. Currently, I am a community consultant for the Indigenous health, minorities communities and COVID-19 project led by the Central Connecticut State University and University of Illinois at Chicago."
María Hilda Chaluisa Pallo
Hilda is an active member of the Indigenous Movement of Cotopaxi, Ecuador Runakunapak Rikcharimuy ECUARUNARI, part of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador-CONAIE, and Kichwa Activist from the community La Cocha, Zumbahua, Cotopaxi (Panzaleo People and Kichwa Nationality). She has held positions at the Primary Secretary in the Indigenous School System of Cotopaxi, Communication Secretary of the Indigenous Movement of Cotopaxi. She has been an educator, director and volunteer at multiple institutions in Cotopaxi. She holds a Master in Intercultural Bilingual Education, Mention in Planning Management at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba-Bolivia. She has extensively worked the revision of Curricular Redesign of Intercultural Bilingual Basic Education, Pedagogical Production of the History and Geography of the pedagogical KUKAYU, revision of the Model of the IBE, in the elaboration of Self-learning Guides of Community Family Child Education-EIFC and Insertion of the Semiotic Process- IPS.
Consultants
Augustin Panizo
Linguist in the Pontifical Catholic University of Perú. Special interest include native languages and language policies. Director of Native Languages in the Cultural Ministry of Perú. Member of the Advising Counsel of Wikitongues.
Carolina Rodríguez
Linguist and magister in Anthropology in the Pontifical Catholic University of Perú. Special interests in research on the interaction between language and culture in native societies of the Amazon. Her work has mostly revolved around the Iskonawa in Ucayali.
Scott James Perry
Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he is part of the Alberta Phonetics Laboratory. His research interests include phonetic reduction, bilingual speech, and quantitative methods.
Isaac Alva
Public health physician and researcher at the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University. PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Perú. His research interests are global health and indigenous health
Bernabé Mahua
Member of the indigenous Shipibo Konibo Native Community of Paoyhan. Social audiovisual communicator and musician. Part of the School of Amazonian Cinema and of the Filmmaker Association of the Peruvian Amazon- ACAPE
Siwar Peralta
Quechua indigenous, visual artist graduated from the Diego Quispe Tito del Cusco University of Arts, is dedicated to audiovisual production in documentaries and animations. His works are created from the Andean and Amazonian worldview.