Paola Gabriela Quispe Quispe

Of indigenous Aymara roots, daughter of farming parents and resident of the city of El Alto, Paola studied Educational Sciences at the Universidad Salesiana of Bolivia, and is currently finishing her degree in Social Communication at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. For the past four years, she has worked as a coordinator of socioenvironmental projects, such as the “Guardians of Nature 2.0” project. In the audiovisual field, she won a scholarship with Residencia Fotográfica Warmis de Luz, a photography residency, and was winner of the competition: “From our roots we tell stories” with the short film “Cuando Florezca el Chuño” (When the chuño blossoms). She was also director of the best documentary of the year in the “UNICINE” competition with the documentary “Warmis, guardianas del agua” (Women, water guardians). As a writer, she has published articles such as “Warmis, guardianas del agua luchan contra la escasez de recurso hídrico en Huarina” (Women, guardians of water fight against the scarcity of water resources in Huarina) in a digital magazine “La Nube,” and the article “Píldora de sabiduría” (Pill of wisdom) in the Agencia Joven de Noticias.