Cathy Hu is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work sits at the intersection of punishment and society, social movements, and political sociology. Currently, she is working on an ethnographic and interview project examining criminal justice activism in the Bay Area. This project focuses on the county criminal court, and DA elections in particular, as a new site of intervention for social movements from both the abolitionist left and the tough on crime right. It aims to show how local battles over issues of the criminal court reflect ongoing tensions between progress and regress in criminal justice and racial politics more broadly. Before starting at Berkeley, Cathy worked as a research analyst at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center and received a BA in Sociology from Rice University. In her free time, she enjoys seasonal baking, spending time outdoors, reading fiction, and skateboarding around town.
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Sociology, UC Berkeley
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