Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, Regina Baeza Martinez (she/her) is an MA Sociology student at Simon Fraser University. She is the Project Manager of a research project calledTransnationally Indigenous. Spreadheaded by co-investigators Dr. Glen Coulthard (UBC) and Dr. Michael Hathaway (SFU), theTransnationally Indigenous project explores Indigenous transnational activism and diplomacy. Regina is also a Research Assistant on a project called Temporary Foreign Worker Programs, Indigeneity, and Livelihoods: The case of Mayan Migrant Farmworkers in Canada under the supervision of Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez (SFU).

In her research, Regina explores how Indigenous Mayan migrant workers from Guatemala build livable worlds through everyday actions while living and working in rural Canada. She uses decolonial ethnographic research methods to highlight forms of individual collective agency. Her interdisciplinary research bridges together the disciplines of Sociology, Anthropology, Migration Studies, and Indigenous Studies to generate a new process of seeing and studying migrant work in a way that brings Indigenous perspectives to the forefront.