Maia Golzar Anderson is an Iranian-American Jewish graduating senior at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Her work focuses on neocolonialism and natural resource extractivism through migration and cultural identity in the Middle East and North Africa. Through immersive fieldwork and language study, Maia strives to understand global power systems through grassroots decolonial organisation, emphasising systemic change to land, labour, and natural resource rights.