Cruz Garcia is a Puerto Rican designer, artist, curator, educator, author, and theorist. He is an Associate Professor at Iowa State University. Along with French designer, artist, curator, educator, author, and poet Nathalie Frankowski, Garcia is the co-founder of WAI Architecture Think Thank, a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. WAI is one of Garcia and Frankowski’s many platforms of public engagement, which also include Beijing-based anti-profit art space Intelligentsia Gallery and the free, alternative-education platform and trade school Loudreaders