Laurel Mei-Singh is a geographer who serves as an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa. Her current book project develops a genealogy of military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Wai‘anae, a rural and heavily militarized region of the island of O’ahu in Hawai’i. She works with Hawai’i Peace and Justice, an organization dedicated to demilitarization and abolition.