Nick Shatan is a PhD candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, studying the history and political economy of affordable housing development in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Chicago and a Master of City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University. Before coming to Berkeley, Nick worked for the MIT Community Innovators Lab while supporting the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative and the Bronx Community Land Trust. Originally from Manhattan, New York, Nick interned with various New York City...
Ángel is a PhD candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley who conducts research at the intersection of (sub)urban sociology, race and inequality, policing, incarceration, and housing. Their dissertation investigates a contemporary and understudied driver of segregation in the metropolitan United States: prison proliferation. His previous research on racial and renter threat in California suburbs received the Graduate Student Paper Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and was recently published in Social Problems. Ángel’s work has...
Julia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She researches news media and political accountability in the United States. Prior to beginning her PhD, she worked at a litigation consulting firm in Washington DC for two years. Before that, she completed her BA at Georgetown University where she majored in economics and government and minored in mathematics.
Luis Tenorio is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology as a Chancellor's Fellow and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Luis's research explores the intersections of immigration, social policy, citizenship, and the law. While his current work explores the effects of obtaining legal status, his prior work examines the legal processing and integration of Central American unaccompanied youth.
Luis' Research: My research has traced broad, significant social and economic detrimental impacts to being undocumented, suggesting legal permanent residency would significantly...
William “Bill” Arthur Brandt, Jr. passed away on May 28th at the age of 73, surrounded by family. Bill was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 5th, 1949, to William Sr. and Joan Brandt. Always on the move, he considered himself a man of many homes, and loved the nomadic lifestyle his work required as he grew his company, Development Specialists, Inc. (DSI) into a leading corporate restructuring consultancy with offices around the country.
An accomplished athlete, he was an alternate to the 1964 Olympic...
Lawrence J. Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at Berkeley Law. His research interests include regulatory politics and administrative law, globalization, state-society relations, the legal profession, and contemporary Chinese law and politics. His research has been published by or is forthcoming in the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, the Yale Journal of International Law, The China Quarterly, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Previously, Lawrence served as a law clerk to the Honorable Andrew D....
Kirstin Krusell is a PhD candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley. Kirstin’s research is united by an interest in risk and uncertainty—from how risk is felt at an everyday level to its political economy. Previously she has studied how labor unions are navigating the challenges of AI and automation in the workplace, and her current research examines the rise of doomsday prepping across the American political spectrum. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. My research agenda is broadly focused on representation in American Politics, with specific interests in descriptive representation and the local politics of small-town America. Prior to coming to Berkeley, I received a B.A. in Political Science, Philosophy, and German from Tufts University. Subsequently, I spent three years as a research associate in the Political Science department at MIT, working with scholars in both American and Comparative politics.
