 So my name is Cal Fanny Toure. I am an assistant professor of anthropology at Mount St. or at Mount St. Mary's University in Western Maryland. And my research area is in fact... I look at the intersections between race, place, and public safety broadly. And so my research takes two different sort of lines, if you will, of inquiry. That is, I'm interested in displacement and gentrification. What does it mean to be displaced from public housing? And how does displacement and gentrification play into this sort of larger project of sort of racial geography? And the second thing that I'm interested in, which is somewhat related to the first, is police encounters of African-American and Latinx males in urban public space. What are the discretionary decisions of police officers when they encounter us? And how does their background, their formative background, growing up in with their own community life, whether that community life is cosmopolitan or more homo... more of a homogenous community? But how does that inform their decision-making? But also how does their formal police training, as well as the informal police culture, help to shape their sort of perceptive range of black and Latinx people? In other words, do they see us as a threat or not? And how does that process take formed? Why anthropology? Well, anthropology, for me, is important for a couple of reasons. I love storytelling. And I think that the creative and ethnographic approach to storytelling is what's so attractive for me. And I often tell people I was first deeply in love with hip-hop. And I still am, to a great extent. But I grew up listening to Slick Rick and Dana Dane, and they would tell stories in their music. And they would use these stories to share the sort of indigenous perspectives of folk from the black community, right? Stories about pain, about suffering, about inequality, about structural racism. But they would also use this art form as a way of deterrence and empowerment, and to build dignity and so forth in the black community. And I thought anthropology was the closest to that. But I also love the sort of theoretical approaches offered in anthropology, and that also offered through its methodology. I think, why else? Why anthropology? Well, anthropology, in many ways, allows for cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to social phenomenon. So I am interested in race, place, and public safety. And I feel comfortable and empowered and confident about reaching across the disciplines. And I think I wouldn't feel this way if, in fact, I approach my particular study from another