Moderator

• Kalynn Amundson

  Kalynn Amundson is a professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Front Range Community College, Larimer Campus.

Participants

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  Dr. Nishant Upadhyay

  Panelist

  Nishant joined the Department of Ethnic Studies at C.U. Boulder in Fall 2019. They received their PhD at York University, Toronto in the Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought in 2016. Their dissertation received the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Award in 2018. Prior to joining CU Boulder, Nishant taught Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Northern Arizona University. Their research focuses on intersections of race, indigeneity, caste, gender, and sexuality. Their book manuscript, Indians on Indian Lands: Transnational Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity, studies the formation of dominant-caste Hindu Indian diasporas in North America and Indian diasporic complicities in processes of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, antiblackness, heteronormativity, brahminical supremacy, and Hindu nationalism.

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  Dr. Tori Omega Arthur

  Panelist

  Dr. Tori Omega Arthur’s research areas of specialization include critical cultural theory and the intersections of media, race, gender, sexuality, (im)migration, and cultural tourism; social media based televisuals; the histories and formations of digital diasporas; and, digital/social media representations of the transnational mobilities of Black people, particularly Black LGBTQIA and womxn mobilities. She has a professional background in television news, digital humanities, and strategic communication, and teaches courses in media history, multiculturalism in media, and public communication technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in American Culture Studies with a focus on critical studies in media and film, and a Graduate Certificate in Ethnic Studies from Bowling Green State University. Dr. Arthur also holds a Graduate Certificate in Digital Public Humanities from George Mason University. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at American University and a Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Design at James Madison University.

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  Tatiana Flowers

  Panelist

  Tatiana Flowers is the inequality and general assignment beat reporter for the Colorado Sun. She has covered crime and courts plus education and health in Colorado, Connecticut, Israel and Morocco. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing, Zumba, learning how to DJ, and live music events. Rabbits are her favorite animal.