Kiran Asher is an interdisciplinary scholar whose academic training is grounded in two decades of field-based research in Latin America and South Asia. While her research interests are diverse, they remain focused on the gendered and raced dimensions of social and environmental change in the global south. Her approach to these themes emerge from her engagement with postcolonialism, feminism, and Marxism, and her political commitment to social change. These commitments are also reflected in her, mentoring, and in what she reads (http://www.redwolfconspiracy.com/) and writes http://www.kiranasher.blogspot.com/).