Kelly Lytle Hernandez is a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA, where she is also the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of the award-winning books, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). In 2019, Professor Lytle Hernandez was named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow.