Benoît Vallée is a second year PhD student enrolled in the Latin American, Caribbean and U.S Latino Studies Program at SUNY Albany. As a former Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, he completed a M.A from the same LACS program as well as a M.A in History and International Relations from the University of Rennes 2, France. His research interests gravitate around Hip-Hop culture, U.S. Latinx, the Caribbean, transnationalism, ethnomusicology, urban anthropology, deportation and the arts. He's been currently working on the Latinx transnational experiences between New York and the Caribbean through Hip-Hop culture. After emphasizing the Puerto Rican experience, he is now focusing on Dominican transnationalism through Hip-Hop culture. Lately, his research has been presented at the Dominican Studies Association Conference (2018), at the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies Conference (2019) and at the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Conference (2019).