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EDUCATION

2024                      Ph.D. Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook
2019                       M.A., Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook
2013                       M.A., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
2009                       B.S., Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Immigration and transnationalism; Latinx in the United States and the relationship between immigration and political participation; Transnational political participation of Latin Americans in the United States; Deportation and deportee participation in transnational politics

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Sociology

SUNY Geneseo

Lecturer 2023 - Present​

Introduction to Social Problems and Social Policy  â€‹

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Department of Sociology

SUNY Stony Brook University                                               

Instructor 2016-2023

  • ​Sociology of Drugs and Alcohol Use

  • Sociology of Crime

  • Sociology of Medicine

  • Media and Society                                                      â€‹

Graduate Teaching Assistant 2015-2023                                                                                

  • Ethnic and Racial Relations

  • Social Problems in a Global Context

  • Sociology of Intimate Relationships

  • War and the Military

  • Introduction to Sociology

  • Media and Society

  • Sociology of Drugs and Alcohol

  • Media and Society

PUBLICATIONS

2024

Tejada, K., & Navas, N. (2024). Making meaning from the “yo no se:” Agency and truth-telling in Salvadoran women. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241270924

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2023

Tejada-Peña, Karen and Natalia Navas. 2023. “Examining ‘La Ayuda:’ Law Enforcement and Latinos on Long Island during COVID-19.” International Journal of Conflict and Violence. Published online: https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/6681/5990 

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2019                     

Frederickson, L., Sullivan, M., Ohayon, J., Kohl, E., Lamdan, S., Cordner, A., Hu, A., Kaczowka, K., Navas, N. and Wicks, L. “A Sheep in the Closet: The Erosion of Enforcement at the EPA.” EDGI

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2016                     

“Abrazando el Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity October 2016 2: 596-597

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Field Researcher and Community Engagement Coordinator                                    2022-2024

“Stories of Belonging: Central American TPS Workers & the

Defiant Struggle to Stay Home in the US”

Research Project under Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina, Cornell University, New York

This multi-year study explores the historical engagement of TPS workers in the struggle for their rights as migrant workers, immigrant worker justice, workplace justice, union organizing, and American rights of citizenship.

 

Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                    2019-2023

"Putting them on Ice" Book Project under Dr. Karen Tejada-Pena

A multi-year study that examines how community-policing relations in Long Island are impacted by the cooperation and presence of ICE. This project is funded through a Russell Sage Foundation Grant

 

Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                   2018- 2019

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) Project- Interviewing

The EDGI Project is an international network of academics and non-profits addressing potential threats to federal environmental and energy policy, and to the scientific research infrastructure built to investigate, inform, and enforce them.

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Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                    2017-2019

TrueChild.org

TrueChild is a network of experts and researchers dedicated to helping funders, policy-makers, and practitioners challenge rigid gender norms through intersectional approaches that reconnect race, class and gender.

 

Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                    2012-2013

Working under Dr. Ana Aparicio, Northwestern University “Riverville,” NY

Research supported by the National Science Foundation. This project is a study of the complex transformations that are taking place in US suburbs in the 21st century focusing on the suburbanization of poverty in the late 20th and early 21st century. 

ADVOCACY AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING

Lead Organizer

National TPS Alliance and The National Day Laborer Organizing Network-NDLON

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Workforce Development/Occupational Health/Safety Coordinator                                      

New Immigrant Community Empowerment-NICE, Jackson Heights, NY

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Employment Specialist                              

Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY

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Faith-Based Community Organizer                                                                                       

Queens Congregations United for Action (FAITH IN NY)-PICO National Network, Corona, NY

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Northwest Immigrants’ Rights Project - Expert Witness                                        

Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law-Volunteer and Legal Interpreter                    

TPS (Temporary Protective Status) Campaign- Volunteer                                               

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