Yojana Miraya Oscco

Yojana Miraya Oscco is a Vanier Scholar and Quechua researcher from the Andes of Peru. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto and a Research Assistant at the TRU Lab. She holds a B.A. in Geography from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru) and an M.A. in Environment and Community from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Her research examines how Andean Quechua communities understand and enact their relational systems of governance (Llaqta Kamachiy and Hatun rimanakuy), and how the material and ethical values that sustain these systems enable communities to resist and navigate the extractivist logic that underpins the corporate power of mining and state-led interventions. She is the co-founder and director of Kuskalla Abya Yala, a non-profit organization dedicated to Indigenous language and cultural revitalization, and co-host and co-producer of the Kuskalla Podcast, which explores Andean politics, history, ecology, and Quechua language.