Gabriel Zeballos Castellón is a 2021-2022 graduate FLAS fellow studying Quechua.

"I study Quechua because I work on ecosystems that lie on indigenous land of people that belong to the Quechua and Aymara Cultures. I believe that knowing Quechua will help me understand better the problematic that the communities in the Andean mountains are experiencing due to the climate change.

I plan to stay in academia either as a researcher or a professor, or both. I don't mind living in North America or Europe as long as I am able to come back to the Andes every year for research."