a BRIEF Selection of recent invited talks

“CDFIs: Essential Partners for Racial Equity in Small Business.” Asset Funders Network, annual meeting.

“Cultural Organizing as Reclamation and Resistance.” Smart Growth America’s Equity Summit, Washington, DC.

“Suburban Schools, Urban Realities: Policy and Possibility at the Urban Edge.” New York University and John Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

“The Scales of Economic Justice: Examining the Balance of Philanthropy, Black Business, and Racial Equity.” Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference, Washington, DC.

“The Future of Shelter: Where Do We Go From Here?” University of California, Berkeley, CA.

“The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge.” The City University Seminar at Columbia University.

“The Small Business Anti-Displacement Network.” Webinar on “Building Legacy Wealth for Small Businesses.” Association of Women’s Business Centers.

“Somos de Langley Park: The Fight for Fair Redevelopment along Maryland’s Purple Line.” Brownbag Series, Brookings Institution.

White House Meeting on Tenant Protections and Rental Affordability. White House Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council, Washington, DC.

“The Not-So New South: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in the Research Triangle.” Panelist as symposium on “Suburban Inequality in the United States,” organized by the Russell Sage Foundation.

“Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia.” Cornell University.

“Redeveloping the Suburbs, Re-Envisioning the Suburbs after COVID.” Panelist at symposium on “The Future of Suburban Health and Housing,” Hofstra University.

“Go-Go City: Displacement and Protest in Washington DC.” New York University in DC.

“The Future of Retail: Entrepreneurship and Main Street Workshop.” National League of Cities.

“AAPI Heritage Month: Safeguarding Asian American Inclusion and Belonging.” The Brookings Institution.

“Housing is Healthcare.” George Washington University Urban Studies Initiative.

“Racial Justice and Cities.” Symposium on “Confronting COVID, Racial Injustice, and Economic Inequality,” Urban Affairs Association.

“Housing, Neighborhoods and Suburbia.” Cornell University.

“Reparative Housing.” University of Virginia.

“Lakeland: History, Community and Restorative Justice.” City of College Park, Maryland.

“Chocolate City: The History of DC’s Urban Design.” DC Design Week, Washington, DC.

“Maryland’s History of Redlining & the Future of Land Use.” Webinar sponsored by Delegate Brooke Lierman, Maryland State Delegate, MD.

“How Land Use Policies Impact Opportunity across the District.” DC Office of Planning and DC Department of Housing and Community Development, Washington, DC.

“Politics and Political Mobilization in the Suburbs.” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Boston, MA.