Dr. Noelle Stout is a cultural anthropologist, feminist scholar, and an award-winning author and lecturer. Formerly an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at New York University, Stout holds a research faculty position at Apple University and teaches at Stanford. She is the author of two books, Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class and After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba. Stout earned a PhD from Harvard University, and a BAS and MA from Stanford University. She is a Northern California native and lives in the Bay Area with her family.