Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, writer, scholar and professor at Columbia University, where she is also the founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive. Among her books and publications are Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (New York University Press, CHOICE Award, 2004), The Latino Media Gap (2014), and Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism in Native Nations and Latinx America (University of Arizona Press, 2017). Negrón-Muntaner served as director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race from 2009 to 2016, and co-director of Unpayable Debt, a working group that studied debt regimes in the world. Her most recent project is the award-winning Valor y Cambio (Value and Change), an art, digital storytelling and just economy project in Puerto Rico and New York (valorymcambio.org).