Sarah Knopp is a PhD Candidate in American Studies at UNM and also holds an MA in History with a specialty in Latin America and the US West. Her dissertation examines contested visions of the water-energy-finance nexus in New Mexico. She focuses on grassroots efforts to reshape the economic development priorities of extractive industries and the New Mexico state government, and communities’ demands for cleanup, compensation, and reparations. She has also written about transnational collaboration on gang truces between Los Angeles and El Salvador, and other organic solutions to colonial violence. Her work is interdisciplinary and draws on the disciplines of history, visual culture and art history, cultural criticism, political economy, and critical Indigenous studies.