 My name is Dawn Elisa Fisher. I am an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at San Francisco State University where Dr. Diane Lewis once taught. I am a cultural anthropologist. My degrees are in for-filled anthropology, undergrad, masters, and PhD. My work in anthropology entails educational research, particularly educational ethnography. I study transnational social movements and the role of popular culture, specifically hip-hop, anime, and manga. Afro-futurist work is like speculative fiction and the role that that plays in international or transnational social movement organizations. I use cultural linguistic-filled methods in my research. Why anthropology? I think growing up reading the work of numerous black and African diaspora authors, I found the work of Zora Noel Hurston captivating, inspiring, and resonated with the type of research that I thought I may want to do one day. I identified early as someone with, in what we frame as scholar activism, and anthropology seemed to be a the discipline where I could honor the interdisciplinary parts of my intellectual interests. Importantly, though, reading the work of Irma McLaren, Bay Harrison, Marcelina Morgan, Enoch Page, Marilyn Thomas Husted, and many others that I can't name right now. While I was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis, I think that aspect solidified my decision to, and the type of anthropology and where I identify myself.