Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Board Member, Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Endowed Chair of the Feminist Studies Department and Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written two books: Love and Empire: Cyberbrides Across the Americas (NYU Press, 2013) and Unsettled Borders: The Militarization of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Lands (Duke University Press, 2022). Her articles have been published in journals in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and France and she serves on the steering committees of numerous organizations at UC Santa Cruz, including the Center for Racial Justice, the Research Center for the Americas, and the UC Humanities Institute.