Natalia Guzmán Solano

Natalia Guzmán Solano is a faculty fellow and assistant director of admission at the Bard Microcolleges in New York City. She is an activist-scholar who envisions knowledge production as a collaborative practice. Natalia is the granddaughter of Argenides Rosso de Solano and on her paternal side she comes from the line of Bertilda Franco. She lives on Canarsie Lenape territory in what is otherwise known as Queens, NY. In her scholarship, Natalia implements transdisciplinary methodological approaches as a way toward reparative justice in the academy. Natalia has used testimonio as an indispensable entry into decolonizing anthropological knowledge. This work largely focuses on themes of gender and water protection in the fraught extractive economies of north highland Peru. Natalia earned a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis.