Maya Singhal is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. They received their PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. Maya's work is broadly about how people navigate violence across generations. Their current book project is an ethnographic and historical study of community defense and its challenges for African American and Chinese American populations primarily in Lower Manhattan from the 1960s to the present.