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Mohammed Rafi Arefin is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Urban Geography at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She edited two books with Mamadou Diouf: Les Arts de la Citoyenneté au Sénégal: Espaces Contestés et Civilités Urbaines (Editions Karthala, 2013) and The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). Fredericks’s research has won major funding support from the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays, and the National Science Foundation, and she was NYU’s Stephen Charney Vladeck Junior Faculty Fellow 2015-2016. After completing her PhD in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, Fredericks was a postdoctoral research scholar with the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her current research, supported by the National Science Foundation, examines informal recycling labor at the city’s dump Mbeubeuss. It chronicles Dakar’s volatile municipal garbage politics in the wake of structural adjustment. Her book Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal (Duke University Press, 2018) was awarded the Toyin Falola Africa Book Award by the Association of Global South Studies in 2019. Her research focuses on urban citizenship, political ecology, discard studies, and infrastructure in contemporary Dakar, Senegal. Rosalind Fredericks is Associate Professor of Geography and Development Studies at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Updated information on the 2022 conference coming soon. This information is for the 2020 Conference.