This episode engages the multifaceted human rights challenges faced by Haitians in the homeland and in the United States and beyond. It features Dr. Cécile Accilien, a professor and scholar of Haitian Studies and Board Member of the Haitian Studies Association, based in Atlanta, Georgia. She has published a number of books, articles, and chapters; her most recent publication is a co-edited volume (with Valérie Orlando), Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives, published by University Press of Florida in July 2021. Dr. Accilien challenges dominant narratives of Haiti and places the island nation's current challenges within a larger historical and contemporary global perspective.