Nathalie Lozano Neira is from Muysca territory in Colombia. She arrived in occupied and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Səl̓ílwətaɬ, and Skwxwú7mesh Nations in 2000 as a government assisted refugee. Nathalie has been involved in migrant justice and decolonial justice organizing efforts and has experience in facilitation, curriculum development and community-based social research.

My research looks at how transnational gatherings of Indigenous Women across Abya Yala and Turtle Island, foster resistance and mobilization against colonial violence, weave new transnational frameworks of relationality and create new pathways to theories and practice of decolonial solidarity. Two research questions guide my inquiry: 1) How are transnational relationships amongst Indigenous women collectives woven and sustained? 2) How have the interactions between Indigenous women in Canada, Colombia and Mexico impacted each other’s work, vision, and worldviews in their resistance to colonial violence?

Lozano Neira, N. (2024). Relationally, Resurgence, and Resistance: A Refugee’s Journey ‘Home’. Feminist. Security Studies in the Americas: pushing the fronteras. Chapter 12. Palgrave Macmillan. Expected publication date: January 2024.

Lozano Neira, N. (2022). Unsettling My Journey as a Prieta. Feminist Studies 48(1), 270-278 https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0015

Lozano Neira, N. (2021). Settler-Migrant Relationships: A Brown Woman’s Journey. In B. Bunjun (Ed), Academic well-being of racialized students (pp. 150–162). Chapter 10. Fernwood Publishing.

Lozano Neira, N. & Marchbank, J. (2016). Is She One of Us? In M. Ward (Ed), Gender Identity and Research Relationships, (pp. 169–190). Part V. Emerald Publishing. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S1042-3192201614

Lozano-Neira, N; Friesen, C. (2011). A New Start: Refugee Youth Pre Departure Orientation Pilot Program Report and Curriculum, Immigrant Services Society of BC, 2011. https://issbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/14_-_a-new-start-sept_2011.pdf

Searsli, S; Salazar, J; Lozano-Neira, N. (2010). Gang Prevention for New Immigrant and Refugee Youth in B.C. Report, BC Ministry of Public Safety, 2010. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/public-safety-and-emergency-services/crime-prevention/community-crime-prevention/publications/gang-prevention-immigrant-refugee.pdf

Cohen, D; Lozano-Neira, N; Garg, V. (2018). LEVELYouth Policy Program Indigenous and Racialized Migrant Youth 90 hours Policy Training, Vancouver Foundation, 2018. https://levelvf.ca/youth-policy-program/program-outline/

Women Peace and Security Award – Research Network on Women, Peace and Security 2022

Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship (CGS-D) 2024

Lozano Neira, N. “Race and Racism in Canadian Postsecondary Institutions”. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, November 2016.

Lozano Neira, N. “Decolonizing Migrant Justice Research” Unsettling Conversations, Unmaking Racism and Colonialisms – 14th Annual Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Studies Conference, Edmonton, October 2014. Breakout Panel Session.

Lozano Neira, N. “Decolonizing Research Methods”. Intersectionality Research, Policy and Practice: Influences, Interrogations and Innovations, Vancouver, April 2014. Main Plenary Presentation.

Lozano Neira, N. “Migrant Women in Social Justice Organizing”. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2014.