People

Peru

Ch'aska Eugenia Anka Ninawaman
Ch’aska Anka Ninawaman is a Quechua indigenous leader in the Chisikata community in Cuzco, Peru. When she turned 6 she came down from the mountains to the town of Yauri-espinar, and from the age of 7 she worked in the city of Arequipa. One day, however, she found she had been classified by non-indigenous people as an ‘ignorant mountaineer’. So, for personal pride and for the dignity of her people, at the age of 15 she started studying. She took a Masters’ in Social Sciences at FLACSO in Ecuador, specializing in Ethnic Studies. She currently works as a teacher of the Quechua language in INALCO (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations) in Paris.

Roxana Crisólogo
Born in Lima, Peru, I’m a poet & activist. I studied Media and  Literature in the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and Law in the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal;  I also did postgraduate studies in international law at the University of Helsinki. I am coordinator of the Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) in Lima, and am a member of the working group of the postgraduate Democracy and Global Change programme at the Social Science Faculty of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
I have published the collections Abajo sobre el cielo (Lima, 1999), Animal del camino (Lima, 2001), Ludy D (Lima, 2006), the pamphlet Trenes (Lima 2007) and the videopoetry CD Abajo sobre el cielo (Lima  2007).

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