The Pomona College Humanities Studio Events welcomed LeiLani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams, co-authors of Racial Ecologies, for a discussion about decolonizing ecological (in)justice.

LeiLani Nishime is a Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on race and the environment, Asian American visual representation, and gender and technology. She is the author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture and the co-editor of Racial Ecologies, Global Asian American Popular Culture, and East Main Street. Her writing can be found in journals such as Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication Theory, and Quarterly Journal of Speech. Her writing can also be found in books such as Asian American Media, Mixed Race Hollywood, and Teaching Asian North American Texts. She is the grant writer for the Seattle Asian American Film Festival and the Associate Director of the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity.

Kim D. Hester Williams teaches in the English and American Multicultural Studies departments at Sonoma State University. She is co-editor of Racial Ecologies, published by the University of Washington Press in 2018, and has published essays on the representation of race, gender and economy in literature, music, media, popular culture and film. Her latest work focuses on race and eco-horror, including essays about Jordan Peele's US film and a chapter about Stephen King's IT novel and film adaptations. She also writes poetry grounded in womanism and eco-Afro-poetics. Her poem, "Losing Count: A Re-Collection by Numbers", was recently published in the fall 2021 edition of the Canadian journal, The Goose.