Farah Hamouda (she/her) is a Sociology Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara with research interests in Palestine studies, environmental justice, colonialism, indigeneity, and media. Drawing from her lived experiences as a child of Palestinian immigrants, Farah is interested in unsettling settler colonial processes and state-sponsored violence towards Indigenous populations around the world, including ecological violence, government-initiated censorship, and displacement. Her MA thesis examined how state institutions utilize ecological violence as a method to normalize settler colonial processes and maintain social control over Indigenous groups. Farah received her B.S. in Sociology and minor in Political Science from the University of Utah and MA in Sociology from Vanderbilt University