Yarimar Bonilla is a cultural anthropologist. Currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and in the PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Bonilla's work focuses on Caribbean and Latin-X politics and sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has studied anti-colonial labor activism in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, and the political and social aftermath of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.Bonilla writes a monthly column in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día, and is a regular contributor to The Washington Post, The Nation, Jacobin, and The New Yorker, and a frequent guest on National Public Radio and news programs such as Democracy Now!.