Sage Gerson (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), located on the unceded Indigenous lands and waters of the Chumash people. Sage is completing UCSB’s Interdepartmental Emphasis in Environment and Society. She received a 2021-2022 ACLS-Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her dissertation, “The Leaky Grid: Black and Native Electrified Imaginaries.”