Natalia Guerrero

Natalia is a community educator, cultural organizer, and memory worker, with ancestral roots in Colombia. Their practice centers the use of participatory arts, media, and story-telling projects for movement building, accountability, and liberation. In 2010 they interned at WITNESS supporting the launch of the Forced Evictions Campaign. They have worked at various non-profit organizations in the U.S. and Latin America designing resources, leading trainings, and envisioning new programs to protect and defend the rights of immigrant, Indigenous, Black, POC, and LGBTQ2+ people.

In 2014, they designed/published a participatory documentation process with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to strengthen and find community-led solutions with Afro-descendant and Indigenous people in Colombia impacted by forced displacement, state, and gender-based violence, and child recruitment by armed groups. In 2018 Natalia founded Lion’s Tooth Project, a youth-led initiative for immigrant QTBIPOC young people in the U.S.

Natalia holds an M.A in Media Studies from The New School and was part of the Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University. As the U.S. Programmatic Communications Coordinator, they oversee the strategic use of social media, offer support for trainings, and share lessons across interrelated movements in the U.S. and globally.

They live with their wife and pup in New York, building a home away from home and dreaming up community gardens.