Kermit O is a 4th generation Philadelphian, and longtime educator. A former school teacher, he came to understand how schools reproduce relations of domination — subordination to capital, surveillance, social and carceral control — particularly for Indigenous, Black, and Brown youth. This led him to explore alternative formations in community-based settings, including land-based pedagogy and participatory action research. His graduate work examines the different forms of enclosure: the physical, digital, and sociopolitical infrastructures placed between people and land, tying up our labor, polluting our environments, disrupting ecosystems, driving desperate migrations, and fueling the climate crisis. Seeing education and activism as inextricable, he seeks to engage with communities in shared struggle, mutual support, and the collective construction of knowledge.