Summary
Noemy Condori Arias, together with her mom and grandmother, started community-based efforts to revitalize and maintain Quechua in her native community. She led the creation of the Ch’aqwarispa asirinapaq audiovisual storybook and presented the project and reflections at the 2025 International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the University of Hawai’i Manoa, as well as in the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She has been involved in creating pedagogical materials and training Indigenous speakers in different communities: Quechua, Moré, Itonama (Bolivia) and P’urhépecha (Mexico). She also mentors undergraduate students with Quechua and other Indigenous ancestry, supporting them and guiding them to achieve their language-related goals. She also engages in community-based participatory action both in California, where she currently resides, and in her community. She has taken part in language justice efforts, such as the Mitientsi kuajperakuachani (Know Your Rights) project led by P’urhépecha speakers in the Californian diaspora. She also works as a social activist, creating social media videos and editing a Quechua magazine. Noemy is currently a linguistics Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara.