Robyn Holly Taylor-Neu is a writer, researcher, and freelance illustrator. She is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and holds an MA from the University of Chicago. Supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (Canada), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Erasmus Plus, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), her dissertation research explores the intersections of aesthetic form and political critique through attention to the creative practices of Berlin-based independent animation filmmakers. She has published research articles in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Aboriginal Policy Journal, American Anthropologist, and European Educational Research Journal, and created illustrations for the Hard-Working Students Project (University of British Columbia), Alberta Stories - Indigenous Stories (SSHRC Partnership Grant), and Society for Cultural Anthropology - Fieldsights.