Assistant Professor of African American Studies & Anthropology at City University of New York. He has just returned from Haiti. He is co-editor the book Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction. He is also co-director and producer of the documentary film Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy. This summer, he has been studying aid delivery and living conditions in Haiti’s camps for the internally displaced.