 Hello, I'm Faye Harrison, I'm a professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am an African diaspora specialist, a specialist in what I call the culture and political economy of social inequalities and intersections of race, gender, class, nation, or national belonging or not belonging. I also am interested in the intellectual history of anthropology, of African diaspora studies, and I'm interested in human rights and the ways that anthropologists, students of anthropologists translate and apply anthropological tools into grounded, lived forms of engagement, making interventions that can improve our lives on Mother Earth. My anthropology, I think anthropology appealed to me particularly once I found out there was a discipline called Anthropology because it provided a global context for situating self, other community, family, and as a young person I was always interested in what is beyond North Virginia, that port town in southeastern Virginia where because it was a port there were people coming in from other parts of the world in that southern town. So I think the geography of place because I was there as a child in the context of the U.S. apartheid, Jim Crow, about to be transformed. I ask questions about the here and now and what else is out there and initially it was cultural geography, world geography that helped me find answers but by the time I got to become a college or a university student I realized there's a discipline called Anthropology. Archaeology, I started with archaeology but said I don't think so but when I found out about social cultural anthropology and once I met Louise Lanford who was my teacher, advisor, I could imagine myself having a future in that profession and I have no regrets. Despite my critiques of established social science, academia, and so forth I feel that I'm very grateful that there's enough maneuvering space for people like me and my colleagues to ask hard questions, hold our discipline accountable so that we can create spaces to make interventions and to from the bottom up build an anthropology in the world that can be otherwise.