Fredy Roncalla
Fredy Amílcar Roncalla Fernández is a Peruvian-born Quechua-language writer and artisan.
Life and career
Roncalla studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima, and then migrated to the United States to work at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. While at Cornell, Roncalla's voice was included in NASA's Voyager Golden Record, a time-capsule project chaired by professor and scientist Carl Sagan.He lives and writes in the New York metropolitan area where he also has established his artisan work.
Additionally, Roncalla is an executive council member of Chirapaq, Indigenous-lead organization in Peru.