Lynnette Arnold received her Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2016 with a dissertation called "Communicative Care Across Borders: Language, Materiality, and Affect in Transnational Family Life." Her PhD studies were funded by a nationally competitive Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and she has taught numerous courses on language and racism.