Quechua Lifetime Achievement Award

Quechua Alliance Annual Meeting

Previous Awardees

Miguel Huanca (2024): a pioneer in Indigenous Language education within U.S. institutions. Huanca has been an author and Aymara-language instructor since the 1970s in his native Bolivia and at the University of Chicago.
Yarina (2023): Andean music band and cultural organization that promotes Kichwa language and culture in Ecuador and the United States.
Luis Morató Peña (2019): author and Quechua professor. For five decades, Morató Peña dedicated his time to the research and teaching of Quechua and Spanish. He has also taught in this country at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas at Austin, and Cornell University. He retired from at The Ohio State University in Columbus in 2016 (Cochabamba, Bolivia).
Elvia Ambía (2018): founder and director of the Quechua Collective of New York and a native of Chincheros (Apurímac, Perú)
Kichwa Katari (2017): is a weekly radio program, the first in the indigenous Kichwa language in the U.S, aimed at reaching the Quechua/Kichwa population in the United States, particularly the Ecuadorian community in New York.
Julia García (2016): Bolivian teacher and community leader in Virginia.
Clodoaldo Soto (2015): Peruvian professor of Quechua at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is the author a worldwide renowned Quechua language learning manual.