Miryam Yataco

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Miryam Yataco back to “First Voices Radio.” Miryam is a Quechua Peruvian-born language rights advocate, an expert in bilingualism, and a sociolinguist. Her work is rooted in the idea of language rights as human rights. In Peru, Miryam worked with Quechua Indigenous Congress women as a congressional assistant in matters of language rights. Miryam is a former faculty member at New York University where she worked for 22 years. She has published on matters of language policies, Indigenous language/territory reclamation efforts, Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization of knowledge and power. Miryam is currently a research associate at the Linguistic Department within Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, and she is a founder member of a group of Indigenous scholars and activists forwarding the aims of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty and resurgence.