Ananya Roy is a professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010) and coeditor, with Aihwa Ong, of Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global (2011). She is interested in how postcolonial feminism can engender critical readings of global capital and its circulations.