Jaskiran Dhillon is Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at The New School in New York City. She is a first generation academic and advocate who grew up on Treaty Six Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her scholarship, organizing and teaching aims to work in the service of political movements advancing decolonization, justice and freedom across the world. Her book Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017) provides a critical, ethnographic account of state interventions in the lives of urban indigenous youth.