Vernon Shaw is a local organizer, scholar, and translator whose work spans the fields of philosophy, history, cultural studies, and political economy/ecology. At present, he is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature program at UCSB where his current research focuses on film and media, anticolonial social movements, and capitalist geopolitics. He is also working on another larger research project concerning the essential features of imperialism and the crucial role it has played throughout history.

In 2024, Vernon was fortunate enough to receive a sponsorship from the Global Latinidades Project in order to attend the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique Summer School which hosts radical scholars from all over the world, particularly Latin America, Africa, and Asia Here, he was able to engage directly with renowned intellectuals and become closely acquainted with vital scholarship that is often misunderstood and underrepresented in mainstream academia.