About us

Watuchi is an ayllu (a community) made up of various members:

board members

Emma Vadillo Quesada

professors

Anthony Rodrigo Tueros
Daniel Miranda Huallpa
Elwin Huaman Quispe
Emma Vadillo Quesada
Guzael Huaman Paniura
Juan Tueros Ceron
Nicaela

Anthony is a translation and interpretation student at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas in Lima. His mother tongue is Quechua and he holds an advanced certificate in Collao Quechua from the Ministerio de Cultura. Rodrigo has been teaching with the Collective since 2020.

Daniel Miranda Huallpa is a Quechua historian. He is part of the project Glosas Croniquenses that collects terms of indigenous original from the XVIth century. He’s also part of the Kamaq Yachachiqkuna team, for the development of science in Quechua.

Emma is an editor and translator from France and Peru. She studied at Sciences Po and Columbia University, and completed a 4-year Quechua diploma from INALCO in Paris. She has been teaching Quechua since 2020 and also works on various revitalization projects involving other indigenous languages of the Americas.

Juan Tueros Ceron was born in Apurimac and is a native Quechua speaker. He is a cultural promoter for an association of Apurimac residents in the capital of Peru and spreads the customs of his town in Lima.

Nicaela is a linguist and a children’s book illustrator. She is also the coordinator of the publishing house “Atuq Yachachiq” (@atuqyachachiq) based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. 

members (past & present)

Anaís Azul
Anthony Rodrigo Tueros
Carla Hensley
Cathey Ambush
Douglas Cooke
Edouard Ruelle
Eva Zapata Signorino
Faviola Torres
Fiorella
Frédéric Schendel
Gading Candra
Javier Juanillo
Jessica Kahn
Jonathan Benavente
Juan David Gastolomendo
Lauren Hall
Leslie Arestegui Saldaña
Lissett Angamarca
María Elena García
Marisol Silva Pilares
Mathias Becerra
Paul Janampa Alvarez
Rowan Glass
Sergio Villegas-Davirán
Shabrayle Setliff
Sophia Pazos Cevallos
Vavi Chinchay