Stephanie Lumsden (she/her) is a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She earned her PhD in Gender Studies at UCLA in 2023. Her research examines the relationship between Indigenous dispossession and the development of the carceral settler state in northwestern California. Stephanie has been a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History department at UC Santa Cruz. Stephanie is currently an Assistant Professor and a Graduate Faculty Advisor at the UC Davis Department of Native American Studies.