Alissa Trotz is Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and Director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She is also affiliate faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados; and a member of the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health. She is a resource person with Red Thread Women’s Organization in Guyana and editor of “In the Diaspora,” a weekly newspaper column in the Guyanese daily, Stabroek News. Alissa is editor of The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings by Andaiye. London: Pluto Books, Black Critique Series, 2020. (translated 2022, O importante é transformar o mundo, Brazil: Editora Funilaria).