Tami Navarro is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Drew University. She is a founding member of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective (VISCO) and a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. She is currently a Fellow at the Rose Archives at Emory University. Dr. Navarro is co-host of the podcast, “Writing Home: American Voices from the Caribbean” and the Co-Director of the Transnational Black Feminisms working group at Columbia University.  

She is the author of Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands (SUNY Press 2021) which was recognized by the Association for Feminist Anthropology and the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. She is currently at work on a project tentatively entitled “In the Event of Emergency/You Are Here,” which explores competing notions of belonging in the US Virgin Islands during moments of crisis.