Grazzia Grimaldi (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is a Salvadoran anthropologist interested in carceral and anti-carceral politics in Central America. Her current research project, “Carceral Intimacies: Family, Criminalization, and El Salvador’s Carceral State,” examines how female relatives of incarcerated people navigate a state of exception under a war on gangs in the context of authoritarian politics in El Salvador. Her ethnographic work at the gates of prisons, courtrooms, and family homes connects carceral studies and abolition with feminist theories and methods, as well as Central American studies. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences Research Council and the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, among others.