Dr. Keston K. Perry is Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the role of race, global finance and governance solutions for addressing the implications of intersecting economic, political and ecological crises. His work appears in a number of international academic journals including the Geoforum, Climate and Development, and Energy Research and Social Science. He is currently writing a book on plantation imperialism, climate reparations and the resistance of Caribbean communities and peoples to planetary ecological crisis. He has served as an economic affairs officer of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, and recently was an expert consultant to the Guardian Media UK Limited on a podcast on the possibility of reparations and the role of the Guardian media group in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.