Marco Ammatelli, 2025-2026 AY FLAS Recipient

February 24, 2026

Marco Ammatelli, 2025-2026 AY FLAS Recipient

Meet AY FLAS awardee, Marco Ammatelli. Marco is a first year dual Master of Arts student in Latin American Studies (MALAS) and Population Health. Marco is studying beginning Quechua. Marco is studying Quechua “to meet people where they are. Communicating in a language native to the Andes enables me to honor indigenous ways of knowing and being while simultaneously becoming a better steward of the knowledge entrusted to me. In this way, learning Quechua serves as a radical medium for reciprocity. These motivations are fundamental to my research and education, which seeks to elevate the voices and needs of rural, agrarian communities across the Andes.”