Overview
Natalia Navas, Ph.D., ’09, is a practitioner-scholar, labor educator, and qualitative sociologist specializing in the intersection of labor rights, legality and legal status, and political autonomy within immigrant communities in the United States. Natalia has over 10 years of experience in the immigrant rights movement in New York and nationally. She has significant experience developing and delivering popular education curricula for immigrant workers and extensive teaching in higher education. 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, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stony Brook University.
Selected Publications and Policy Papers
- Campos-Medina, Patricia, and Natalia Navas. We Are Home: Workers with TPS Belong Here. (2026).
- Karen Tejada, & Natalia Navas. (2024). Making meaning from the “yo no se:” Agency and truth-telling in Salvadoran women. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
- Karen Tejada, & Natalia Navas. (2023). Examining “La Ayuda”: Law Enforcement and Latinos on Long Island during Covid-19.
- A Sheep in the Closet: The Erosion of Enforcement at the EPA (Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, May 31, 2019).