Vignesh Ramachandran (he/him) is a graduate student in the geography department researching the platform economy, carceral/abolition geographies, and the history of management and technology. He is interested in how working-class immigrants, in their organizing for better social and economic lives in the city, reimagine environmental justice and (police/prison/border) abolition. His work navigates archival documents from the second industrial revolution and ongoing long-term community based ethnography and oral history in New York City.