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As a community-engaged researcher, I am committed to developing public scholarship, sharing insights with practitioners, and supporting historical production and preservation that is accessible to community members and aims to address challenges or needs that they have identified. This has entailed:
- conducting research for museums and libraries, including the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum
- writing essays for public audiences through The Black Agenda Report, The Architect's Newspaper, Deem Journal, Encyclopedia Virginia, and Monument Lab
- integrating community-based organizations as core partners in my courses and facilitating student development of impactful deliverables, the most recent being the Adventures Program at the Loppet Foundation for "Civic Engagement in Public Affairs," a graduate level urban planning course at UMN
- contributing to advancing tenant protections in Southern California, most significantly as a member of the Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action and in coalition with other organizations committed to housing justice
- giving academic talks to community-based researchers, organizers, and the public by regularly participating in accessible educational spaces, including the Hampton Roads Social Justice and Inland Empire People's History conferences
- sharing tailored expertise with a range of health-oriented professionals at institutions such as the VA of Greater Los Angeles, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- disseminating research findings through popular media, including The Guardian, KPCC (NPR Pasadena), Grist, and The Los Angeles Times
In keeping with the ethic of accountability inherent to community-engaged research, I prioritize language justice when possible. For example, as a graduate research assistant at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, I stewarded the open-access publication of two reports into Spanish (as well as English).
Additionally, I actively contribute to advancing scholarship within academia: reviewing papers for journals including Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Antipode, International Journal of Housing Policy, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and Planning Theory, delivering papers at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ASCP) annual conferences, and publishing in journals such as Planning Theory and Practice, Radical Housing Journal, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.