Koyana Flotte is an anthropologist, culture bearer, community leader, and independent consultant with a decade of experience conducting research in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. Dr. Flotte is more well known for her support of humanitarian aid causes for in-transit immigrants who experience intersectional violence such as LGBTQ+, women, and children seeking asylum in the United States. She has also collaborated with organizations like RAICES, Santa Fe Dreamers Project, Transgender Law Center, Mariposas Sin Fronteras, etc.
Dr. Flotte is Native and grew up in West Texas, on the Texas-Mexico border.
Climate-related issues, Deportees/criminal deportees, Disability, Document Authentication, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, Gender-based violence/domestic violence, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, HIV/AIDS, Journalist persecution, Land tenure disputes, LGBTQ, Likelihood of destitution or homelessness, Mental illness, Military/police service, Political persecution, Prison conditions, Religious discrimination or persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocatio, Sexual abuse/assault, Torture, Trafficking, Tribal discrimination or persecution, Violence against children/child abuse, Elderly, LGBTQ Youth, Indigenous Speakers from Central America and Mexico, Sex workers
I have written two expert witness reports for asylum cases.
Flotte, Koyana, 2024, "Trans Migrant Fugitivity: Transnational Migration and the Sanctuaries in Transit", the University of Texas Press.