Laura Barberan Reinares is a Professor of English and Literature at Bronx CC CUNY. She has published an award-winning article on gender, globalization and trafficking as well as articles on postcolonial literature and pedagogy in several peer-reviewed journals. Her book, Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño, was published in 2014 and 2017. She is part of the Human Rights Hub faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.