 I am a cultural anthropologist of what I call the extreme social edge, people that are absolutely at the edge of society. I have these two rings. When I was 18 years old, I went on my own for the first time to Pakistan, and I met some street kids that weren't that distant in age from me, and we became fast friends, and they gave me these rings. Over the course of the months that I was there, they started to tell me about their life, where they had come from, who they were. These rings have stayed in my bag that I've brought to almost every classroom since I've worked here at UVM, which has been a decade now, and that's sort of metaphor for the fact that it always, this thought about people at the very edge of society, the most vulnerable, always stays with me and my teaching and my research, and I want to remember that. It gives me satisfaction, it's captivating, and also very troubling. But I hope that it illuminates wider questions about justice, society in general, cities, identity, and our future.