Liz Ševčenko is founding director of the Humanities Action Lab (HAL), a growing consortium of over 30 universities, led from Rutgers University-Newark, that collaborate with issue organizations and public spaces to develop student- and community-curated public memory projects around contested social issues. HAL’s latest project is Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice, a traveling exhibit, web platform, and public actions confronting histories of environmental racism and their legacies for the climate crisis, created by over 500 students and frontline community leaders across the hemisphere COI was preceded by States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories, which inspired the Rikers Public Memory Project, a collaboration with Just Leadership USA and Create Forward. HAL grew out of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, an international collaboration of universities and organizations. Ševčenko launched from Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, to build a global conversation about the past, present, and future of the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay.