Sophia Lindner is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology and African American Studies departments and a Dean’s Emerging Scholar at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale. Her research examines how racial dynamics shape dominant narratives of collectivity in cultural and national arenas and the ways Afro-Diasporic groups resist these narratives. Her B.A. thesis examined racial stratification in Cuba’s private tourism economy and experiences of Black homestay hosts in Havana. Her current projects explore socioracial approaches to cultural economic sociology as well as critical race perspectives on the “anti-CRT” movements beginning in 2020. Her dissertation examines how Black youth navigate changing meanings of race and adolescence in the wake of 2020's racial violence alongside youth-affecting national responses to COVID-19.