Dr. Saudi Garcia is a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2022-24) and incoming Assistant Professor (2024-) at The New School’s Department of Anthropology. She is a writer, ethnographic researcher and social transformation practitioner who theorizes racial capitalism and ecological crisis from her social location as an Afro-Caribbean queer feminist and first-generation immigrant.

Deeply concerned with all Caribbean people’s relationships to land, ecology and environmental health in the midst of the climate crisis, Dr. Garcia’s dissertation focused on the modern history of gold mining and tailing dam development in the Dominican Republic. She examined the contemporary health effects and forms of resistance to gold mining, ecological destruction and water scarcity through a framework attentive to how Black rural Dominicans draw on ancestral knowledge to refuse toxicity as an embodied manifestation of racial hierarchy.

Dr. Garcia is a graduate of Brown University, New York University’s Department of Anthropology and its Culture and Media program. She volunteers as a facilitator for the Dominican-Haitian peace and reconciliation organization In Cultured Company. She enjoys surfing near her hometown, science fiction and being an auntie.