juleon robinson is an organizer, community educator, and PhD Student in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. His research analyzes the relationship between race and property in Bay Area housing geographies, with a specific focus on the persistence of Black housing geographies as sites of temporariness and dispossession. His current project examines the 2017 demolition of the Las Deltas public housing complex in North Richmond, California, to reckon with the role of public housing policy in the ongoing fragmentation of Black geographies in California’s East Bay.
Broadly, his research interests include housing geographies, Third World Marxisms, the Black Radical Tradition, communist organizing and organization, speculative urbanisms, and regional political economy. He is an active tenant organizer in the Bay Area’s Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) and department steward in UAW Local 2865. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Amherst College.
