The Minority Health Disparities Initiative is excited and honored to welcome Professor Linda Green of the University of Arizona. She will be presenting a talk entitled “No Exit: Mayan Women’s Entanglements with Violence, Impunity and Asylum.” Dr. Green’s research, though divergent in orientation, converges around a central theoretical problematic, namely how to think dialectically about complex issues of culture, community, violence and suffering. As such, her work attempts to trace historical shifts in vulnerability, particularly among peoples across the Americas whose primary identity is indigenous. Moreover, Green traces U.S. foreign policies beginning in the 1950s to the present, that have created the conditions for the current crises in the Northern Triangle region and in Guatemala in particular.