Jina Fast is the SHIFT Associate Professor of Applied Ethics and the Common Good and Director of the Learning Collaboratives at Hampshire College, USA. As a feminist epistemologist, queer theorist, and critical philosopher of race, her work centers theories produced by and through the experiences and work of marginalized folks across disciplines. Dr. Fast's work has been published in the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, & Social Justice, Philosophy and Global Affairs, The Journal of Education, and Hypatia, among others. Her first book, entitled Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology: The Liberation of Philosophies of Freedom and Identity, was published in December 2023 by Rowman and Littlefield International. She previously edited a volume of essays on Herbert Marcuse entitled The Marcusean Mind as part of Routledge’s Philosophical Minds series in 2024. She is currently at work on a book on creolizing 20th-century post-war aesthetics.