Karina Alma is an assistant professor in the Chicano/a and Central American Studies Department at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research includes U.S. Central American and Latinx interrelations, labor, race-gender diversities, feminisms, cultural memory and making, creative agency, and social death. She is a published poet and a co-editor of U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance.