Tarika Sankar is a community-engaged researcher of Indo-Caribbean diaspora; critical race, gender and sexuality scholar; higher education advocate and digital humanist. She is currently Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University. Tarika holds a PhD in English from the University of Miami where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities and a Graduate Concentration in Caribbean Studies. Her dissertation project, "Beyond the Culture Concept: Indo-Caribbean Identity as Diasporic Consciousness," received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. She was a research assistant on the What Every1 Says Project and a Community Leader at the Digital Humanities Research Institute. Tarika has been involved various advocacy roles within higher education as an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) UMiami chapter representative, Graduate Student Association President, and organizer with UMiami Graduate Workers Union. She is also a collective member at Ro(u)ted By Our Stories, a digital oral history archive of marginalized voices within the Indo-Caribbean community. Her research interests include Indo-Caribbean feminisms, Caribbean literature, multiethnic U.S. and immigrant literatures, critical race and ethnic studies, queer theory, and digital humanities.