Bryce Puesta Takenaka is a PhD candidate in Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health and a Predoctoral Fellow at Yale School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Investigation. Bryce’s research interests aim to interrogate and challenge the apparatus of structural determinants of health that manifest through settler colonial, racialized, and gendered cartographies. He leans into community-driven and transnational epistemologies to inform participatory and radical spatial practices for alternatives to empire and state violence. Bryce’s dissertation research traces U.S. empire, specifically about the institutionalization of militarism and tourism as carceral infrastructures and its influence on environmental health outcomes in Hawaii. He holds master’s degrees in History of Science and Medicine from Yale University and Epidemiology from Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice, and a bachelor’s degree in Community and Population Health (Public Health) from Lindenwood University.