Janeke Thumbran is a PhD student in African History at the University of Minnesota. Her research interrogates the relationship between universities, knowledge production and race in apartheid South Africa. She is a PAGE Fellow and a Media Services Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts. Janeke is also the co-creator of GTMO in MSP, a digital project that explores the surveillance of Somali Americans, migrant detention in the Twin Cities and its connection to the torture and indefinite detention in Guantánamo Bay.