Sophie Chao is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She previously worked for the human rights organization, Forest Peoples Programme, in Indonesia, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling indigenous peoples to their customary lands, resources, and livelihoods. She co-edited the Forest Peoples Programme reports Conflict or Consent? The Palm Oil Sector at a Crossroads, “A Sweetness Like Unto Death”: Voices of the Indigenous Malind of Merauke, Papua, and Divers Paths to Justice: Legal Pluralism and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia. Her research explores emerging multispecies relationships in West Papua in the context of oil palm expansion.