About Me
I am an urban planning and geography scholar, with an emphasis on planning history and planning theory. My research focuses on grassroots planning histories, Black life, housing justice, migration and displacement, and community building. At present, I am a PhD student in Urban Planning at UCLA, where I study, teach, and conduct research across programs in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
For my dissertation, I am analyzing the community organizing of Black residents in the LA region's exurbs - the exurbs being an understudied, yet significant, site of contemporary urbanism for Black American life. I am using archival and ethnographic research methods to better understand the practices and limits of Black collective struggle in an anti-Black state, and to examine the extent to which these practices constitute a planning tradition.
For my dissertation, I am analyzing the community organizing of Black residents in the LA region's exurbs - the exurbs being an understudied, yet significant, site of contemporary urbanism for Black American life. I am using archival and ethnographic research methods to better understand the practices and limits of Black collective struggle in an anti-Black state, and to examine the extent to which these practices constitute a planning tradition.
