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. His research leverages quantitative and geospatial methods to investigate how housing policies and planning influence residential mobility and neighborhood change for low-income and minority households in American cities. Taesoo's dissertation examines the housing experiences of Asian Americans, challenging the prevailing narrative that they face minimal barriers in the housing market. His work focuses on: 1) ethnic, class, and locational variations in Asian homeownership, 2) the...
