Natalie Avalos is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ethnic Studies Department at University of Colorado Boulder and will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in the 2020-21 academic year. She is currently working on her manuscript titled The Metaphysics of Decoloniality: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal,whichexplores the religious dimensions of transnational Native American and Tibetan decolonial movements. She is a Chicana of Apache descent, born and raised in the Bay Area.