Dr. Sheena Michele Mason is an associate professor of English at SUNY Oneonta. She holds a PhD with distinction in English from Howard University in Washington, DC, and specializes in Africana and American literary studies and philosophy of race. Her work has garnered recognition, including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities (2025) and the inaugural Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship (2025), Pillar Awards (2024 and 2025), Esther Hubbard Whitaker Award (2023), the Alden Scholar Lecture Series Award (2022), and the Outstanding Scholar of the Year Award (2022) at SUNY Oneonta. She is published with Oxford University Press, Palgrave MacMillan, Cambridge University Press, and the University of Warsaw among other presses. She is the innovator of the togetherness wayfinder (formerly and alternatively called the theory of racelessness) and founder of Togetherness Wayfinder, an educational firm. Her book The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism shows how ending our belief in “race” and practice of racialization is required toward the goal of ending the causes and effects of racialized dehumanization.