About Me

I am an urban planning and geography scholar whose research focuses on people's planning histories, Black life, housing justice, migration and displacement, and community building. At present, I am a PhD student in Urban Planning at UCLA. Additionally, I collaborate with (and am accountable to) a range of community-based organizations, and am committed to supporting and developing public scholarship when possible. For the dissertation, I am analyzing the ongoing dispersal and displacement of Black Angelenos to the region's exurbs, and seek to re-conceptualize community development, from the neighborhood scale to the regional, for diasporic peoples.