Natalie Baloy

Associate Director of Transboundary Initiatives, Western Washington University.
I live with my young daughter and partner on Lummi and Nooksack lands and waters in Bellingham, Washington. I grew up in the US Midwest and moved to the Salish Sea to complete a PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of British Columbia over 15 years ago. As a settler scholar and community member, I engage in work to address ethical relationships in higher education, settler colonial systems, and critical place-based pedagogies that cross borders and disciplines. These commitments drive my work toward grounded, relational, and bioregional teaching, learning, and programming at the Salish Sea Institute, in conversation with Living Lab at the University of Victoria and other transformative initiatives across the Salish Sea.