Shayda Kafai (she/her) is an associate professor in the Ethnic and Women's Studies Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is the author of Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice Art Activism of Sins Invalid (Arsenal Pulp Press) and is the co-editor of Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy (Syracuse University Press). She lives in Montclair, California.