About

Jacquelyn Kovarik is an independent journalist and educator based in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes. She was the 2018-2019 Web Editor for The North American Congress on Latin America. In 2019 she graduated from the Global and Joint Program Studies dual masters program at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the NYU Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She has print, transcription, translation, and video production experience.   

She has studied the Andean indigenous language of Quechua since October 2015, and has been awarded four Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.

Her reporting on contemporary Peruvian and Bolivian politics has been published in The Nation, The New Republic, Latin America News Dispatch, NPR's Latino USA, NPR's Latino Rebels, and the North American Congress on Latin America. Her video production includes freelance videos on political and social issues in Peru for PBS Newshour.  

When Jacquelyn is not writing she works as a Course Director for Where There Be Dragons, designing and leading 3-month Gap Year semesters in Peru and Bolivia.