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Leila K. Blackbird (Louisiana Creole, unenrolled adoptee of Apache-Cherokee descent) is currently the Pozen Human Rights Doctoral Fellow of US & Atlantic History at the University of Chicago. She also serves as the Senior Research Editor for Keywords for Black Louisiana, an NHPRC-funded project, PI: Jessica Marie Johnson. Leila is a sociolegal scholar and historian of colonialism, slavery, and state violence with a focus on the lived experiences of the Black and Indigenous peoples of the Gulf South. Her work has been featured in books such as Louisiana Creole Peoplehood and What is History, Now? and in the academic journals Eighteenth-Century Studies and The William & Mary Quarterly.