Ángel Mendiola Ross (they/he) 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 current project examines the relationship between prison proliferation and ethnoracial residential segregation in metropolitan U.S. during the post-civil rights period. His empirical work on racial and renter threat in California suburbs was recently published in Social Problems. Ángel’s work has received generous support from the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society, and the Russell Sage Foundation. They received a Master of City Planning from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley and BAs in sociology and economics from the University of Southern California. Ángel grew up in the Inland Empire and worked as a senior associate at PolicyLink based in Oakland, California
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Sociology, UC Berkeley
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