Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz is an award-winning reproductive justice scholar, educator, and activist based in Iowa City, Iowa. She is current faculty at the University of Iowa and the author of two books: Homeland Maternity: US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime (2019) and Doing Gender Justice: Queering Reproduction, Kin, and Care (2025; with Shui-yin Sharon Yam). She has published numerous articles on the cultural politics of reproduction and is currently at work on a book with Lina-Maria Murillo and Asha Bhandary on reproductive justice and care. 

Natalie is proud to co-edit the Locating Reproductive Justice book series with Lina-Maria Murillo through the University of Iowa Press. Her scholarship and teaching emerge from a combination of academic training alongside two decades of experience in reproductive politics as a community organizer and advocate in various local and regional contexts.