Dr. Katherine McCaffrey, professor, received her PhD in anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Interested in a public facing anthropology that engages contemporary problems, Dr. McCaffrey has conducted research on a movement to remove a military live fire range in Vieques, Puerto Rico and subsequent struggles for public health and environmental remediation. Her more recent participatory action research in Orange, New Jersey looks at asset-based community development efforts to resist gentrification and displacement. With Melina Macall, she co-founded a non-profit organization, The United Tastes of America, that draws on her anthropological toolkit to welcome resettled refugees, bridge cultural divides, and fight xenophobia through shared meals. She teaches classes on Latin America, the Twentieth Century, and Building Sustainable Communities.