Emma Velez (she/they) is a Chicanx Okie, decolonial feminist, philosopher, and storyteller. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois. Dr. Velez is interested in the role that our social imaginaries play both in shaping and reimagining our ethical commitments, geopolitical responses to racialized and gendered colonial violence, as well as the politics of knowledge production. Centering the philosophical genealogies and lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities, their scholarship is rooted in storytelling and speculative theorizing and bridges conversations in philosophy, ethnic studies, and feminist theory. Velez is currently working on a book project titled, Orienting Historias for a Decolonial Latinx Feminism.