I am a Peruvian doctoral student in Iberian and Latin American Linguistics from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of Texas-Austin. I hold a Master's degree in Linguistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, as well as a Bachelor's degree from the National University of San Marcos. My current interests lie in the areas of Afro-Hispanic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology and Language Policy. My research focuses on the study of Afro-Hispanic languages, the languages that developed in Latin America from the contact of African languages and Spanish in colonial times. My work combines linguistic, sociohistorical, and ethnographic insights to analyze the complex sociolinguistic system of Afro-Hispanic languages ​​in the Americas.

In particular, I am interested in studying the Afro-Bolivian Spanish, an Afro-Hispanic contact variety spoken in the valleys of Yungas, Department of La Paz, Bolivia. The Yungas area provides an intriguing context for exploring such differing language ideologies. Although this variety has received contempt and ridicule for years, it is recognized that in this 21st century the ideologies and attitudes of speakers are changing. Political changes and the strengthening of Afro-Bolivian identity are causing Afro-Bolivian Spanish to go through a process in which it is being perceived as a symbol of cultural and ethnic pride.