Author: Natalia Perez

Natalia Pérez is a legal geographer and a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Nations also known as British Colombia (Canada). She holds a BSc Economics from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá -Colombia, and a MSc in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences (London-UK). Previous to her PhD studies she had extensive professional experience as a policy officer and researcher for several Colombian government agencies including the Land Restitution Unit and the former Presidential Program for Comprehensive Action against Anti-personnel Mines (Paicma). Her research explores racialization and gender in the practices of progressive land policies through the lens of critical relational property. Her activism involves varied initiatives that seek to promote the protection of Colombian social leaders and support local communities resisting large mining and energy projects in Latin America. She is the co-founder of geógrafxs colombianistas, an academic network that gathers geographers whose research focuses on Colombia and the Place + Space Collective. Her email address is nataliasofiaperez@gmail.com