Natalie Kouri-Towe/NKT is an Associate Professor of feminism and sexuality at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. Her research investigates the politics of solidarity under neoliberalism, with areas of focus ranging across responses to war in the Middle East, refugee crises, queer activism, and gender and sexuality pedagogies. Her edited collection, Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom (Concordia University Press 2024), connects to her new research on transformative pedagogies. In October 2025, she launched the Transformative Pedagogies Lab at Concordia University, a research space for the collaborative development and dissemination of scholarship and popular education tools on gender and sexuality pedagogies.

The Transformative Pedagogies Lab projects: 

(1) Transformative Encounters: Gender and Sexuality Pedagogies in Canada, a SSHRC Insight-funded study on post-secondary learning experiences; 

(2) The Transformation Hub: Gender and Sexuality-Based Violence Prevention Through Transformative Education, a community-based partnership with Project 10 and Éduconnexion to develop popular education tools for violence prevention; and 

(3) Better Practices in the Classroom: A Teaching Guidebook for Sustainable, Inclusive, and Equitable Learning from a Gender and Sexuality Studies Framework, an open educational resource published in 2021 and revised and republished in 2024.

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