Latipa is a media artist, film director, publisher, professor, and the founder and executive director of the Memory and Resistance Laboratory (MEM-RES), a research initiative to advance emergent practices for memory work in the twenty-first century.  For the past 25 years, Latipa has worked across the poetics of cinema, transmedia art installations, books, and grassroots organizing to facilitate intergenerational healing, archival futurisms, and sovereign mediatic forms. Her work with the Memory and Resistance Laboratory understands memory work as interplanetary in scope and transhistorical in dimension, a project of radical poetics and communal reclamation in the wake of racial capitalism, settler colonial warfare, occupation, dispossession, forced assimilation, and genocide.  MEM-RES’ mandate is to develop living archives that attend to the care, nourishment, and well-being of communities across generations. With MEM-RES, Latipa has developed a collective publishing imprint, Communities of Memory, a grassroots initiative to publish uncompromising books that shatter and differently envision the bounds of form, feeling, concept, and politics. Latipa is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside.