Cathy Hu is a PhD candidate 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 a qualitative 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 across the political spectrum. Before starting at Berkeley, Cathy worked as a research analyst at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center...
Taesoo Song is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the nexus of housing policy, neighborhood change, and residential outcomes for low-income and minority households, particularly in high-cost areas. Taesoo's dissertation reassesses the prevailing narrative that Asian Americans face minimal barriers in the housing market. He investigates the ethnic, class, and locational diversity among Asian Americans and how these factors influence their homeownership rates and housing burdens. He then examines the impact of...
