Thea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College. She is author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (W.W. Norton, 2025) and Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke, 2020), co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso, 2019), and contributor to publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, n+1, Dissent, and Jacobin.