Amanda De Lisio

Amanda De Lisio is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health, an Executive Member of the CITY Institute, and Co-Director of the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster at York University. She is the author of Play Naked: Puta Economies Against Olympic Dispossession (2026) and the translator and editor of Putafeminista (2025) by Monique Prada and So What If I’m a Puta (2025) by Amara Moira (with Bruna Dantas Lobato). She organizes alongside research teams that investigate anti-trafficking policing, security practices, and event urbanism in FIFA, Olympic, and Super Bowl host cities.