Professor and researcher at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón de Cochabamba-Bolivia, Julieta Zurita Cavero has extensive experience in Intercultural Bilingual Education, teaching Quechua as a first and second language, designing and leading teacher training seminars, creating indigenous language learning texts and teaching materials, and translating and interpretating from Spanish to Quechua and vice versa. She is also a Quechua language poet and short story author, including the notable trilingual edition of the anthology Zorro Antonio (Quechua, Spanish, English). Zurita Cavero has worked as a consultant for Intercultural Bilingual Education programs in Bolivia, Panama, Venezuela, and Chile and as an academic guest lecturer at the University of Newcastle in England. She has also participated as a guest speaker in international seminars in Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, United States, Belgium, England, France, and Germany. Her principal research and creative interest focus on supporting processes of linguistic and cultural revitalization and development of Quechua and other indigenous languages.
