Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Her research and teaching center community-engaged, decolonizing, and movement analysis methodologies to examine the politics of holistic practices for Indigenous peoples in and beyond structures and institutions of confinement. She is a mother, scholar, poet, and practitioner of Indigenous dance, Indigenous Hand Talk (sign language), martial arts, and yoga. Her first book project, Choreographies in Confinement: Native Education, Incarceration, and Performance, contextualizes dance, theater, basketball, or yoga at two sites for Native children on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota: a former Indian boarding school and a tribal juvenile hall. Her writings have been translated into French and Portuguese and appeared in numerous academic journals and books. She is also the Editor-in-Chief for Race and Yoga, the first peer-reviewed and open-access journal in the field of critical yoga studies.