Natalia Navas

Natalia Navas, Ph.D., ’09, is a practitioner-scholar, a native Spanish and English speaker who engages in bilingual, popular education pedagogy. She is a labor educator and qualitative sociologist specializing in the intersection of labor rights, displacement, and political autonomy within immigrant communities in the United States. Natalia has over 10 years of experience as a leader in the immigrant rights movement in New York and nationally including leading a campaign to maintain and improve temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrant workers nationwide. She has significant experience developing and delivering popular education curricula for immigrant workers and teaching undergraduate students. She has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, an M.A. in International Relations Studies from The CUNY Graduate Center, an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stony Brook University.