Jacqueline Campo is a Quechua second-year PhD student in Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston has recently received an Indigenous Language Scholarship Support Fund by the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) for her research Confronting Lived Language Ideologies: Learning Quechua as a Heritage Language. This fund is used to support indigenous scholars to present and participate in the conference. Jacqueline Campo is the first scholar in our department to receive such an outstanding award from AAAL. She also holds an MA in Applied Linguistics with a concentration in bilingual education and foreign language pedagogy and a BA in Linguistics at the National University of San Marcos, Peru. Her research interests are language navigation in relation to indigenous identities in urban and immigrant spaces.

Congratulations Jacqueline!