Bio: Jacelyn O’Neill is a senior double majoring in Communications and Anthropology. She is originally from Grand Junction, Colorado, a town on the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains. She is a member of the Lemelson Anthropological Honors Program, and her research focuses on identity formation within dwarf wrestlers. A close family member of Jacelyn’s was born with dwarfism. Jacelyn grew up attending yearly Little People of America (LPA) National Conventions, which are run by the largest and most dominant organization for little people in the US. The LPA disapproves of dwarf wrestling—which they say often turns little people into performative stereotypes—but dwarf wrestlers themselves often have different, much more complex relationships to the sport, their bodies, and their identity. Jacelyn’s ethnographic research involves person-centered interviews with dwarf wrestlers to investigate the intersections of disability, sport, performance, race, and gender. With the expertise from her co-advisors, Dr. Douglas Hollan and Dr. Erin Debenport, her current project seeks to offer an alternate discourse to identity and meaning-making among persons with dwarfism.