Kamala Kempadoois Professor of Social Science at York University, Canada. She has published extensively on the Caribbean sex trade, global sex workers' rights, and hegemonic anti- trafficking discourses, including the booksGlobal Sex Workers(edited with Jo Doezema, Routledge 1998),Sexing the Caribbean(Routledge 2004), andTrafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered(edited with Jyoti Sanghera and Bandana Pattanaik, Paradigm 2005/ 2011). More recently, she is co-editor, with Halimah A. F. DeShong, of the collectionMethodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality(Ian Randle Press 2021).

Elena Shih is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University in the U.S., where she directs a human trafficking research cluster through Brown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Her research focuses on the impact of anti- trafficking programs on the policing of migration, sex work, gender, and poverty. She is the author of Manufacturing Freedom (University of California Press 2023), a global ethnography of anti-trafficking rehabilitation in China, Thailand, and the U.S.