Natalia Perez-Gonzalez (she/her) is an Afro-Latina journalist, producer, and freelance writer, specializing in stories on identity, women’s health and wellness, and Afro-Latino communities.

Her work, like her identity, centers intersections, and she’s most passionate about reported features surrounding reproductive access, immigrant communities, Afro-Latin movements, and gender inequality.

Formerly, she was Newhouse Foundation Scholar and a Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow — where she wrote and produced a documentary, "Beyond the Green Wave," on the Afro-feminist movements working against the total abortion ban in the Dominican Republic. (Her accompanying multimedia piece was published on The Nation, and you can read it here!) She also adores writing lifestyle and service pieces about sex and relationships, cultural trends, mental health and body care.

In her free time, you can likely find her searching for the best pupuserias in D.C. (and the best local Puerto Rican + Dominican eats), making almost anyone she ever speaks to take the enneagram test (and then spending the next 2 hours chatting about what your test results mean), watching home renovation videos on Tiktok, or other majestical forms of introverting.

You can find + read Natalia’s work on The Nation, Cosmopolitan, Refinery29, Bustle, Elite Daily, Verywell Health, The Grio, and the Chattanooga Times Free Press among others.

Cinematography by Phillip Warfield.