Kesha Fikes (she/her) is an independent scholar, a psycho-political educator/group facilitator, and a somatic therapist. Her work is shaped by 25 years of engaged theorization on themes spanning phenomenology, neoliberalism, capitalism, universalization, colonialism, black feminisms/racial-gender, labor, border imperialism/diasporization, and politicized somatics. Fikes’ teaching and research praxis are about disrupting the violence of universal reason in everyday encounters. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from UCLA, (with dual sociocultural & sociolinguistic emphases) and she is the author of Managing African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction (Duke U Press). Fikes previously taught as Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the University of Florida, and as Core Faculty in the former doctoral program in Somatic Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute.