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Carlos Molina Vital was born in Lima, Peru (1975). He is currently an instructor and responsible for the Quechua Program at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holdsan M.A. in Linguistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2005), and another from Rice University (2012). He is currently completing his PhD in Andean Studies (Linguistics degree) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. His studies of Quechua languages include varieties spoken in Ancash, Ayacucho, ´¡±è³Ü°ùí³¾²¹³¦ and Cuzco in Peru. He has taught linguistics and language courses (Spanish, Southern Quechua) in Peru and the United States. Since 2018 he has directed the QINTI project (Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative). This initiative has brought together several Quechua instructors and activists in the US. to develop open access materials for the teaching of the Southern Quechua variety. With his collaborators he is currently writing ´¡²â²Ô¾±, the first open access manual for Southern Quechua and intended to help Quechua teachers and students in the United States and around the world from the shared characteristics and diversity of Quechua varieties mutually intelligible spoken in Peru and Bolivia.Ìý