Parminder Bhachu is the author of Twice Migrants and Dangerous Designs and also co-editor of both Enterprising Women and Immigration and Entrepreneurship. She is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Clark University, Massachusetts, USA. She has held a Henry R. Luce Professorship in Cultural Identities and Global Processes and has been a Director of Women’s Studies. She has lived in multiple sites in East Africa, UK, and on both the east and west coasts of USA.

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She is working on technology, design and science interrogating these domains from the lens of migration, culture, border crossing biographies. Her long term intellectual trajectory has dealt with how people who move across international borders multiply, reconstruct and reimagine their lives and culture. These culturally dexterous movers who possess movement capital, which combines resilience, and creative daring and become innovators outside establishment powers. In recontextualizing their skills and expertise in new lands, they are the most innovative and creative people in the world who are defining all the arenas of contemporary creativity, making, crafting, building and collaborating. They have translated ancient maker skills and are transforming modern technology, science, design, architecture, and the arts Powerful sharers of knowledge and resources in democratic and dialogic ways, they are at the heart of open source sharing for collective intelligence, the common good, and the maker movement, to create a more hopeful and equal future.