Rylee Carrillo-Waggoner is a master’s student in the Historical Studies department at the New School For Social Research with graduate minors in Capitalism Studies and Critical Perspectives on Democratic Anti-Colonialism. Rylee obtained their BA from Columbia University where they majored in Comparative Literature and Society and received departmental honors. Their research addresses issues of infrastructure, mobility, race and ethnicity, political economy, discipline/surveillance, art, memory, community, and activism. For their master’s thesis, they are using the 2019 theatrical production Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came With Them (adapted by Virginia Grise) as the narrative through-line for an analysis of highways as apparatuses of capitalist colonial regimes of movement impacting Mexican-American communities.