Tao Leigh Goffe is associate professor of literary theory and cultural history with a focus on Afro-Asian intimacies at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has conducted over a decade of research and teaching on Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. This work is the basis of Afro-Asia Group, which she founded in 2019 for the study of race, art, technology and diaspora. Her essays and art criticism have been published in Asia Art Archive, Amerasia Journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, and Artsy. Dr. Goffe graduated with an undergraduate degree in English literature at Princeton University before earning a PhD at Yale University where she continued studies on racial formation and global colonial desire. Professor Goffe’s new book DARK LABORATORY: ON COLUMBUS, THE CARIBBEAN, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS [(Doubleday, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books UK)], provides a hemispheric history of the climate crisis and Afro-Asian ecologies. (Photo Credit: Elena Seibert)