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  Dr. Ryan Mann-Hamilton is Assistant Professor in the Social Science Department at CUNY LaGuardia and teaches a variety of courses in Anthropology, Music and Latin American and Caribbean studies. Dr. Mann-Hamilton has extensive experience working on land and marine based conservation projects and supporting and participating in food sovereignty projects in the Caribbean, and environmental justice activism in the context of the Americas. Additionally, he was a founding member of the AfroLatin@ Forum and the activist collective We are All Dominican. He is currently the faculty Co-Leader of the Presidents Society Environment Program and was also selected as Faculty Lead by the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center to direct a two year public engagement program focusing on the relationship between race, environment and the humanities that will center the experiences and existing networks between communities in New York and those in the Caribbean. He has extensive experience in public programming, environmental consulting and curriculum development. His most recent publication was a chapter on community centered fisheries conservation and education programs that were developed in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas and the lessons learned from that endeavor.