Chelsey L. Kivland is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She writes and teaches about street politics, insecurity, and social performance in contemporary Haiti. Her first book, Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti (Cornell University Press, 2020), analyzes the potential and challenges of organizing politically in urban contexts characterized by poverty, violence, and governmental neglect. Her current book project explores changing notions of citizenship, statehood, and the social contract through an ethnography of criminal deportation from the United States to Haiti. She has also written about the artistic and performative aspects of urban political culture, including graffiti and carnival bands. All of this is done in an effort to kenbe fèm!--for us to "hold on tight" despite all the tribulations.