Amelia Frank-Vitale is an anthropologist of migration and violence in Central America and Mexico. During her ICWA fellowship from 2012 to 2014, she traveled extensively throughout Central America and Mexico along the migrant corridor, where she examined how violence and migration are prompted and policed. Later, she was a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer at Princeton University’s Program in Latin American Studies. She holds a doctorate degree in anthropology from the University of Michigan, a master’s in ethics, peace and global affairs from American University and a bachelor’s in anthropology from Yale University. Her book Leave, If You Can: Honduran Migration and a New Era of Deportation explores how deported Honduran young people navigate life.