for the students in “Memory Work: Stories from the Next Generation” who were the first

for my accomplices in making change and practicing freedom: Karen Cardozo, Xujun Eberlein, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, kara lynch, Melissa Scheid Frantz, and Holly Wren Spaulding

for memory workers everywhere who, like Edwidge Danticat, inspire me to “create dangerously,” especially: Toni Morrison, Brandon Shimoda, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Dao Strom, Paisley Rekdal, Rithi Panh, Ruth Ozeki, Robin Coste Lewis, Marianne Hirsch, Saidiya Hartman, and so many more…