Christina Cano is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and Black Studies and a Graduate Fellow with the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University. Their research considers the urban built environment, Black political geographies and traditions, racial and tech liberalisms, and public-private productions of carceral infrastructures. They believe in developing responsible methodologies based in community engagement and partnership, and pedagogical practices challenging colonial systems of knowledge and learning. Christina's past work on race and space, municipal redistricting, and policing with the UChicago Justice Project has been published in Social Problems and the University of Chicago Law Review. Born and raised in Miami’s Little Havana, they graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 2019 with a B.A. in Sociology and Creative Writing.