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Maylei Blackwell’s book, Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Organizing (Duke 2023), draws on twenty-five years of research accompanying indigenous women’s organizing in Mexico and its diaspora and over 70 oral histories. She is the author of the landmark ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (University of Texas, 2011) as well as a co-editor of ¡Chicana Movidas! New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era (University of Texas, 2018). She is the co-editor of the Critical Latinx Indigeneities special issue of Latino Studies. She is a Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to co-creating/directing the digital story platform Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles (mila.ssc.ucla.edu), Maylei is currently working on rematriating historical memory and seeding Indigenous social movements through the Mobile Indigenous Community Archive (MICA).Ìý