Jasmine Guaillasaca Quizhpi (she/her)

Jasmine Guaillasaca Quizhpi (she/her) is a fourth-year student studying World History, Hispanic Studies, and Latin American & Latinx Studies, with minors in Africana Studies and Native American & Indigenous Studies. Of Ecuadorian heritage, Jasmine sought opportunities to engage deeply with Latinx academia and has been a member of the CLALS UAB since her first year.  On campus, she is actively involved with Quechua at Penn/Andean Representation, History UAB, featuring Wixárika yarn paintings.  She has had the privilege of studying abroad in both Spain and Ecuador and of traveling to Brazil as part of a course.  Jasmine is currently working toward completing here thesis, which includes Kichwa women’s involvement with material culture as a means of amplifying and transforming ancestral knowledge while also shaping political Indigenous discourse.