Lauren Carruth is Chair of the Department of Environment, Development & Health and Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is author of Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Lahra Smith is Director of the African Studies Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. She is author of Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia and editor (with Meron Zeleke) of African Perspectives on South-South Migration.