Overall, the opportunity to work with the Race, Slavery, Colonialism and Capitalism Research Cluster has been a truly enriching experience. As the graduate fellow for the group, I was not only able to help plan and facilitate the logistics of a spring workshop, but also was given the opportunity to conduct original research as well as to pull together a complementary student panel. More specifically, on one hand, I was asked to liaise with group members regarding comments, deadlines, and edits; collect, review, and distribute notes, documents, and other materials from the Spring 2023 conference at The University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica; and help to coordinate travel, accommodations, and on-campus logistics for the workshop. 

On the other hand, I was able to write for and host an interdisciplinary black studies roundtable aimed at pushing the bounds of the analytic of gendered racial capitalism by exploring the layered dimensions, modalities and registers of Western Imperial economic, political, and social domination from the perspective of the Black Radical Tradition. Furthermore, through this process I was afforded the great fortune of learning from top scholars in my field of interest while also building new peer relationships with other students with whom I hope to work for years to come.