Episode Details

On this edition of Independent Sources hosted by Garry Pierre-Pierre, we speak to Haiti expert Jocelyn Macalla about what lies ahead for this impoverished and politically troubled Caribbean nation five years since the devastating earthquake. We’ll visit Elva Ambía, a Brooklyn resident and native Quechua speaker who established the NY Quechua Initiative. It’s a local cultural organization that aims to raise awareness of, and revitalize this fading native tongue. And Sarah Pizon speaks to Charlie Uruchima, a master’s student at NYU’s Quechua program. He co-founded “Kichwa Hatari” in 2014, a radio show in the Bronx that addresses all-things Kichwan, a variant of Quechua.