ASHLI AKINS
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER | storyteller. researcher. activist.
THANK YOU
GRACIAS
AÑAY
I am eternally grateful to the mentors, collaborators, community members, research assistants, funders, family, and friends who continue to believe in and support my work.
DOCTORAL
ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
Dr. Wade Davis
Anthropology, UBC
Dr. Kai Chan
Resources, Environment & Sustainability, UBC
Dr. Mark Turin
First Nations & Indigenous Languages, UBC
Dr. Nancy Turner
Environmental Studies, UVic
RESEARCH COLLABORATOR
ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS
Illariy Ch'aska Women's Cooperative
Cancha Cancha
Nueva Esperanza Women's Cooperative
Parobamba
Munay Urpi Weaving Cooperative
Huarán
Tejedores Tradicionales Laraypas Indigenas
Amaru
Mayu Ch'aska Weaving Cooperative
Pitukiska
Lydia Beauregard
Victoria
FUNDERS
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council
National Geographic Society
Canadian Federation of University Women
Graduate Women International
Vicky Husband
The Firelight Group
Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies
University of British Columbia
Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
University of British Columbia
Foreign Languages & Area Studies
University of Michigan
Anshela Paravecino Kehuarucho
PROJECT COLLABORATORS
RESEARCH
ASSISTANTS
Beth Luque Huanca Delaplain
Andres Sallo
Alicia Cristina Gallardo
Cusi Saco Chung & Others
Mosqoy
Steve Deroy
The Firelight Group
Tania Herrera Delgado
Casita Huarán
Raleigh Seamster
SUPPORTERS
Mosqoy
Casita Huarán
El Albergue
Langley Fine Arts School
Cloe Whittaker
Dana Schaeffer
Brent & Marka Akins
I am honoured to study, work, and live on traditional Quechua lands of the Andean mountains and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) traditional, unceded, ancestral territory.