Thank you to Jason Richman, Addison Duffy, and A. J. Leone at UTA for sending Asha’s story into the world.
Many thanks to the entire ROLI crew—team, board, investors—especially Corey Harrower and Sarah Kosar—for letting me be your resident anthropologist. Thank you to Joe Treasure for always giving me a safe place to send writing I’m too embarrassed to show anyone else. Thank you to Michael Puett for reading an early draft and giving me the kind of enthusiastic support that has buoyed me through many moments of doubt, and thank you to David Grewal and Daniela Cammack for getting married in Cambridge City Hall. Thank you to Inshra Russell for brilliant website design.
To my people: Bee Rowlatt, Maha Khan Phillips, KS, Anya Serota, Leesa Gazi, Nazia Du Bois, Sohini Alam, Rohini Alam, Sawsan Eskander, Alexandra Pringle, Nataleigh Rene, Kate Enright, and Rachel Holmes—you are the feminist cavalry of my dreams.
And finally, thank you to my sister, who is exactly Asha’s age and remains my inspiration for all things sassy, cool, and DGAF. And to my truly excellent parents, for a lifetime of love and encouragement. May we never be parted again as we have been in the Age of Covid.