a BRIEF Selection of recent invited talks

“The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge.” The City University Seminar at Columbia University.

“The Small Business Anti-Displacement Network.” Webinar on “Building Legacy Wealth for Small Businesses.” Organized by the Association of Women’s Business Centers.

“Cultural Organizing as Reclamation and Resistance.” Panelist at Smart Growth America’s Equity Summit, Washington, DC, March 2024 (invited).

“Somos de Langley Park: The Fight for Fair Redevelopment along Maryland’s Purple Line.” Brownbag Series, Brookings Institution.

White House Meeting on Tenant Protections and Rental Affordability. White House Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council, Washington, DC.

“The Not-So New South: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in the Research Triangle.” Panelist as symposium on “Suburban Inequality in the United States,” organized by the Russell Sage Foundation.

“Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia.” Asian American Studies Speaker Series, Cornell University.

“Redeveloping the Suburbs, Re-Envisioning the Suburbs after COVID.” Panelist at symposium on “The Future of Suburban Health and Housing,” Hofstra University.

“Go-Go City: Displacement and Protest in Washington DC.” Webinar series, “Washington, DC and Chocolate City”, New York University in DC.

“The Future of Retail: Entrepreneurship and Main Street Workshop.” Symposium on “The Future of Retail in Cities,” National League of Cities.

“AAPI Heritage Month: Safeguarding Asian American Inclusion and Belonging.” Featuring Congressmembers Grace Meng and Andy Kim. The Brookings Institution.

“Housing is Healthcare.” Symposium on “On the City,” George Washington University Urban Studies Initiative.

“Racial Justice and Cities.” Symposium on “Confronting COVID, Racial Injustice, and Economic Inequality,” Urban Affairs Association.

“Housing, Neighborhoods and Suburbia.” Webinar series “An Injustice for All,” Cornell University.

“Reparative Housing.” Symposium on “Reparative Justice in Charlottesville,” University of Virginia.

“Lakeland: History, Community and Restorative Justice.” Continuing the Conversation: Town Halls on Community and Race Relation in College Park, City of College Park, Maryland.

“Chocolate City: The History of DC’s Urban Design.” Featured speaker. DC Design Week, Washington, DC.

“Maryland’s History of Redlining & the Future of Land Use.” Webinar sponsored by Delegate Brooke Lierman, Maryland State Delegate, MD.

“How Land Use Policies Impact Opportunity across the District.” Continuing Conversations on Housing, DC Office of Planning and DC Department of Housing and Community Development, Washington, DC.

“Politics and Political Mobilization in the Suburbs.” The Changing Face of Suburban Inequality: How Race and Ethnic Change Unfold in Suburban America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Boston, MA.