Stephen Pitti is a Professor of History; American Studies; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; and Spanish and Portuguese at Yale. He is the Founding Director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration. A former member of the National Park Service Advisory Board, he has edited several book series and has advised the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Public Broadcasting Service, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others. The author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Race, Mexican Americans, and Northern California (2003) and American Latinos and the Making of the United States (2013), he is currently working on book projects entitled The World of César Chávez and Leaving California: Race from the Golden State.