Karen Crespo Triveño
She/Her/pay/ella
I am queer and I am an agroecologist.//
Imaynalla Kashanki? Hello, how are you? I'm a reconnecting Quechua warmi with ancestral lineages from Bolivia (Qullasuyu). My lineage holds histories of migration and cultural perseverance through her father's Andean music. As a queer and neurodivergent first-generation student of the Andean diaspora, I am reconnecting with my ancestry through returning to my heritage foodways, language, cosmovisions, and Land-based practices.
I'm currently a PhD candidate in the environmental studies department at UC Santa Cruz studying whether and how the revitalization of Quechua and Chiquitano agrobiodiversity practices and biocultural memories can support re-peasantization and Indigenous food sovereignty in Bolivia's Altiplano and Chiquitania. As an aspiring scholar-activist, I center decolonial, feminist, and critical (auto)ethnographic methodologies through practices of relationality (minka) and reciprocity (ayni) with Quechua, Chiquitano, and more-than-human autonomy, oral histories, memories, and reclamation.
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