Jessica Brouard is a third-year majoring in Global Studies. Her project concerns the efforts by community activists and organizations to reform post-9/11 surveillance laws. The large-scale surveillance projects in the post-9/11 moment targeted and scrutinized Middle Eastern and Muslim communities across the U.S. The aim of this project is to trace the reaction, action, and organizing that followed. Activists who spoke out against the discriminatory nature of these policies were often subjects of surveillance themselves, occupying the grey space of being both targets and partners of the federal government. Navigating this precarious relationship with the government effectively requires the skillful implementation of compromise, confrontation, resistance, and protest— or maybe something entirely new. The tension between the forbearance needed to challenge these laws and the oftentimes oppositional goals of government institutions is what this project hopes to explore.