Malini Ranganathan is Associate Professor in the School of International Service and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University, Washington, DC. A critical geographer by training, her research focuses on the political ecology of land, water, and climate change vulnerability in urban contexts. She studies the historical and political-economic drivers of environmental casteism and environmental racism, what she calls "environmental unfreedoms," as well as radical articulations of anticaste and abolitionist ecological futures. She is completing one coauthored book project, Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City and working on a second manuscript, Anticaste Political Ecology: Land, Labor and Environmental Justice in Bengaluru.