Emily Colón is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology and a member of the Center for Research and Collaboration in the Indigenous Americas at the University of Maryland, College Park. Colon's work is grounded in Feminist Indigenous Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, and Collaborative and Activist scholarship.

Her research seeks to understand how Indigenous women, more specifically Mebêngokrê-Kayapó menire, enact embodied forms of governance that challenge dominant frameworks of environmental governance rooted in settler-colonial assumptions about gender, land, and authority.