Gladys Camacho Rios is a native speaker of Quechua. She conducts research as a linguist in her community and writes in Quechua. She earned her BA in Applied Linguistics in Language Education from the Universidad Mayor de San Simón. She has earned two MAs: the first in Latin American Studies from New York University and the second in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Linguistics at UT Austin.