Rosalind Fredericks is associate professor at the Gallatin School, NYU. As an urban geographer, her research brings together discard studies, critical infrastructure studies, and feminist political ecology in examining the politics of waste in Dakar, Senegal. Her first book, Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal (Duke University Press, 2018), was awarded the Toyin Falola Book Award. She has also edited two books with Mamadou Diouf on citizenship in African cities and is currently editing New Frontiers in Discard Studies with Mohammed Rafi Arefin. Fredericks is also producing and directing a documentary film, “The Waste Commons,” about the impending closure of Dakar’s municipal dump.