Mythri Jegathesan is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Santa Clara University. Her research interests include plantations, work, gender, human rights, and minority politics in Sri Lanka and South Asia and she is co-editor of The Anthropology of Work Review and Secretary of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies. She earned a PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University and her first book, Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka(2019) is an ethnography of plantation life and work in the context of ethnonationalist violence and civil war in Sri Lanka.