About Me
I am an interdisciplinary scholar of urban planning and geography, with a research emphasis on planning history and planning theory and a professional background in public history. I focus on grassroots planning histories, Black life, housing justice, and community organizing. At present, I am a PhD candidate 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 peripheries - with outlying smaller cities and towns 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 ways in which these practices constitute a planning tradition.
For my dissertation, I am analyzing the community organizing of Black residents in the LA region's peripheries - with outlying smaller cities and towns 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 ways in which these practices constitute a planning tradition.
