Laura Foster is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Affiliate Faculty in African Studies and Law at Indiana University and a Senior Researcher at the IP Unit, University of Cape Town. Her research explores questions of power and inequality at the nexus of law, science, technology, and the nonhuman. Her innovative scholarship contributes to gender studies, socio-legal studies, and feminist science and technology studies. Her current book project is "Vegetal Feminisms: Human-Plant Ecologies, Smart Farming, and the Governing of Artificial Intelligence in South Africa."