Karla Nahuelpan Sánchez is a fourth-year PhD student with a predoctoral grant from ANID (Chile), who investigates the political transnationalism of organizations for indigenous activism in the Americas. She distinguishes between various types of indigenous political transnationalism: migratory (when indigenous people migrate and create organizations in the country of residence that advocate either for indigenous migrants in the country of residence or for indigenous people in the country of origin), institutional (when organizations seek allies abroad, either with organizations of other indigenous peoples or with international organizations), and trans-state indigenous political activism (when the territory of an indigenous people is divided between multiple nation-states). Karla investigates how they function, how the COVID pandemic interrupted their functioning, and whether social media have been increasingly adopted during and after the pandemic.
Karla also coordinates the cycle of seminars for the wider GRAFO research group, and she is a member of the editorial board of the journal Perifèria.
