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Affiliated PhD Student

Jay Arzu

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Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning

About

Jay Arzu currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a Co-Founder of the community engagement platform Collective Form, where he handles Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement.

Jay began his Ph.D. in City & Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in Fall 2021. Mr. Arzu was a Transportation & Equity Research Fellow for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF).

He was responsible for data collection and the production of policy analysis and research. He analyzes best practices and policy solutions to promote integrated and comprehensive policy impacts in black communities nationwide.

Before joining CBCF, Jay was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Grant. He obtained his Master of Public Administration (MPA) at SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy, while on Fulbright. Jay was also a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) intern at the U.S House of Representatives in 2015.

Selected Publications

Will Cuomo Botch the Sheridan Expressway Removal?

I-81 project an opportunity to create equitable, sustainable Syracuse

New Orleans needs a champion

Penn IUR Scholar

Sai Balakrishnan

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Assistant Professor of Global Urban Inequalities, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley

About

Sai Balakrishnan is an Assistant Professor of Global Urban Inequalities at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor in International Development at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, and served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformations. She has also worked as an urban planner in the United States, India, and the United Arab Emirates, and as a consultant to the UN-HABITAT in Nairobi.

Through her research and teaching, Balakrishnan focuses on processes of urbanization and planning institutions in the global south, and on the spatial politics of land-use and property. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Affairs, Pacific Affairs, Economic and Political Weekly, and in edited book chapters. Her book Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations along Urban Corridors in India was published in 2019 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Balakrishnan holds a Master’s Degree in City Planning from MIT, a Master’s Degree in Urban Design from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Urban Planning from Harvard University. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the 2014 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Gill Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning.

Fellow

MarĂ­a Alicia Becdach

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Practitioner Architect and Urban Planning Consultant

About

María Alicia Becdach is a practitioner architect and urban planning consultant. Her urban projects address informality in fragile ecosystems, one of them being the Urban Development and Territorial Plan for the Galapagos Islands with a focus on preserving the environmental services. Her research and teaching has focused on informal settlements, rapid urbanization and urban inequalities. Formerly she served as a professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Universidad de las Américas in Quito, Ecuador. She holds a bachelor of Architecture from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Affiliated PhD Student

Kathy Bi

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Doctoral Candidate in Wharton's Applied Economics program

About

Kathy is a fourth year doctoral student in Wharton's Applied Economics program, studying urban and real estate economics. She is interested in the drivers of spatial inequality and the consequences of place-based policies. Prior to graduate school, Kathy worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Williams College, majoring in Economics. 

Affiliated PhD Student

Veronica Brownstone

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Phd Candidate, Hispanic Studies, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

About

Veronica Brownstone is a fourth year doctoral student in Hispanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation explores how contemporary Central American cultural production deals with the current crisis of disposable labor power. Drawing on the intersections of political economy, critical race theory, and class politics, her research asks what literature and film tell us about the political textures of today’s surplus populations. Of particular interest to her work are the dynamics of the informal, service, and migrant sectors as they relate to subject formation and collectivity. Veronica holds a BA with Honors in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from McGill University. 

Faculty Fellow

Carolyn Cannuscio

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Associate Professor

About

Carolyn Cannuscio is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine and Director of Research for Center for Public Health Initiatives. She is committed to improving the health of populations, especially disadvantaged urban populations, through her scholarship and public health practice. This work is strengthened by collaborations with vibrant interdisciplinary teams and dedicated community partners. Dr. Cannuscio completed her training at Brown University and the Harvard School of Public Health with leaders in social and chronic disease epidemiology. She first came to Penn as a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar and then became a member of the faculty, where she has worked to address the critical social problems driving health disparities, with a focus on population health dynamics in Philadelphia—the poorest of the United States’ 10 largest cities. She is committed to strengthening cross-sectoral partnerships with organizations that have been largely untapped as agents for promoting population health, such as public libraries (notably the Free Library of Philadelphia) and arts institutions (including the City of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program). Dr. Cannuscio is also involved in a range of projects to advance evidence-based practices for the prevention/management of important public health concerns (e.g., the opioid epidemic, food insecurity/(un)healthy food access, and food allergies). She is dedicated to using her skills, experience, partnerships, and position at Penn to answer the Institute of Medicine’s call to “eliminate health inequities and improve health for all.”

Selected Publications

Hailu, T., C.C. Cannuscio, R. Dupuis, and J. Karlawish. 2017. “A typical day with mild cognitive impairment.” American Journal of Public Health 107(6): 927-928. 

Morgan, A.U.; R. Dupuis, E.D. Whiteman, B. D’Alonzo, and C.C. Cannuscio. 2017. “Our Doors Are Open to Everybody: Public Libraries as Common Ground for Public Health.” Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 94(1).

Golinkoff, A., Moriah Hall; Willie Baronet, Carolyn Cannuscio, and Rosemary Frasso. 2016. “Cardboard Commentary: A Qualitative Analysis of the Signs From America’s Streets.” American Journal of Public Health 106(11).

Faculty Fellow

Camille Zubrinsky Charles

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Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education

Walter H. and Leonore C. Anneberg Professor in the Social Sciences

Director, Center for Africana Studies

About

Camille Z. Charles is Walter H. and Leonore C. Anneberg Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education, and Director of Center for Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests are in the areas of urban inequality, racial attitudes and intergroup relations, racial residential segregation, minorities in higher education, and racial identity. 

Selected Publications

Kramer, Rory A., Brianna Remster, and Camille Z. Charles. In Press. “Black Lives and Police Tactics Matter.” Contexts, Summer: 20-25. (https://contexts.org/articles/black-lives-and-police-tactics-matter/).

Charles, Camille Z, Rory Kramer, Kimberly Torres, Rachelle Brunn-Bevel. 2015. “Intragroup Heterogeneity and Blackness: Effects of Racial Classification, Immigrant Origins, Social Class, and Social Context on the Racial Identity of Elite College Students.” Race and Social Problems 7(4).
Kramer, Rory, Ruth Burke, sand Camille Z. Charles. 2015. “When Change Doesn’t Matter: Racial Identity (In)consistency and Adolescent Well-being.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1(2).

Charles, Camille Z., Douglas S. Massey, Mary J. Fischer, and Margarita Mooney, with Brooke A. Cunningham, and Gniesha Y. Dinwiddie. 2009. Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Charles, Camille Zubrinsky. 2006. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Race, Class and Residence in Los Angeles. New York: Russell Sage. 

Penn IUR Scholar

Carolyn Chernoff

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Graduate Faculty, Moore College of Art and Design

About

Carolyn Chernoff is a Graduate Faculty at Moore College of Art and Design. She is an urban and cultural sociologist specializing in the role of culture in reproducing and transforming urban inequality. While a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, Chernoff received the 2013 Arnold Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Doctoral Student from the Graduate School of Education, the Dean’s Scholarship (GSE), and served as a 2012-2013 Graduate Fellow for Teaching Excellence at Penn’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Chernoff’s work focuses on cities, arts, and social change, particularly on the level of social interaction and the production of community. Her dissertation, “Imagining the City: Ritual and Conflict in the Urban Art Democracy,” is based on ethnographic research conducted over a period of eight years at three different community-arts organizations in a major Mid-Atlantic city. 

Selected Publications

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2015. “Black Faces, White Voices/White Faces, Black Voices: The implications of “race fail” for community-based arts education.” Visual Arts Research, 41(1): 96-110.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2014. “Of Women and Queens: Gender Realities and Re-Education in RuPaul’s Drag Empire.” In Jim Deams, ed., RuPaul’s Drag Race: Drag and Reality TV. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2013. “Spelling It Out: Difference and Diversity in Public Conversation.” Michigan Sociological Review, 27.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2013. “Conflict Theory in Education.” In Sociology of Education, James Ainsworth and Geoffrey J. Golson, eds. Sage Publications.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2013. “Waldorf Education.” In Sociology of Education, James Ainsworth and Geoffrey J. Golson, eds. Sage Publications.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2010. Objectifying Measures: The Dominance of High-Stakes Testing and the Politics of Schooling – By Amanda Walker Johnson. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 41: 212–213.

Chernoff, Carolyn.  2009. On Culture, Art, and Experience. Perspectives on Urban Education (Penn GSE electronic journal), 6(2): 77-78.

Penn IUR Scholar

Raj Chetty

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William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, Harvard University

Director of Opportunity Insights

About

Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. He is also the Director of Opportunity Insights, which uses “big data” to understand how to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds better chances of succeeding. Chetty's research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. His work on topics ranging from tax policy and unemployment insurance to education and affordable housing has been widely cited in academia, media outlets, and Congressional testimony.

Chetty received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 and is one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard's history. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, he was a professor at UC-Berkeley and Stanford University. Chetty has received numerous awards for his research, including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the John Bates Clark medal, given to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field.

Selected Publications

Raj Chetty, John N Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, Danny Yagan, Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 135, Issue 3, August 2020, Pages 1567–1633, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaa005

Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R Jones, Sonya R Porter, Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 135, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 711–783, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz042

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, John Van Reenen, Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 2, May 2019, Pages 647–713, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy028

Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 133, Issue 3, August 2018, Pages 1163–1228, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy006

Faculty Fellow

Dennis Culhane

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Professor and Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy

Co-Principal Investigator, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy

About

Dennis Culhane is Professor and Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy, Co-Principal Investigator of Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy. His primary area of research is homelessness and assisted housing policy. From July 2009 – June 2018 he served as Director of Research at the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. His research has contributed to efforts to address the housing and support needs of people experiencing housing emergencies and long-term homelessness and includes studies of vulnerable youth and young adults, including those transitioning from foster care, juvenile justice, and residential treatment services. 

Selected Publications

Culhane, Dennis P. 2016. “The Potential of Linked Administrative Data for Advancing Homelessness Research and Policy.” European Journal of Homelessness 10(3): 109-126. 

Culhane, Dennis, Megan Henry, Rian Watt, Lily Rosenthal, Azim Shivji, et al. 2016. “The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress: Part 1, Point in Time Estimates.”

Pleace, N. and D.P. Culhane. 2016. Better than Cure: Testing the Case for Enhancing Prevention of Single Homelessness in England. London: Crisis.

Cameron, Parsell, Maree Petersen, and Dennis P. Culhane. 2016. “Cost Offsets of Supportive Housing: Evidence for Social Work.” British Journal of Social Work 2016: 1-20.

Fantuzzo, John and Dennis P. Culhane. 2015. Actionable Intelligence: Using Integrated Data Systems to Achieve a More Effective, Efficient, and Ethical Government. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Penn IUR Scholar

Stefanie DeLuca

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James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

About

Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Social Policy Program and the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab. Her research uses sociological perspectives to inform education and housing policy. She has conducted mixed-methods studies that incorporate qualitative research into experimental or quasi-experimental designs. Some of her work focuses on the long-term effects of programs to help low-income families relocate to safer neighborhoods and better schools through housing vouchers. Based on some of this work with young adults in the Baltimore site of the Moving to Opportunity program, Dr. DeLuca wrote a book, Coming of Age in the Other America (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association, and won the William F. Goode Award from the American Sociological Association. She has also been awarded a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Fellowship and a William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Award. Her work has been funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Spencer Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Abell Foundation, National Academy of Education, Gates Foundation and the Department of Education.

Dr. DeLuca contributes frequently to national and local media, including the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Governing, and National Public Radio. She currently serves on a Federal Research Advisory Commission at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and was recently named Scholar of the Year by the National Alliance of Resident Services in Assisted and Affordable Housing. She has been invited to share her research to support policy recommendations at the federal level at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and has provided briefings and testimony for several state legislatures and in federal court on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Baltimore Thompson v. HUD housing desegregation case. She has presented her work as part of an exhibit at the National Museum of American History, and has received the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award.

Selected Publications

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. 2017. “Walking Away From The Wire Housing Mobility and Neighborhood Opportunity in Baltimore.” Housing Policy Debate 27: 519-546.

Boyd, Melody L. and Stefanie DeLuca. 2017. “Fieldwork with In-Depth Interviews: How to Get Strangers in the City to Tell You Their Stories.” In Michael J. Oakes and Jay Kaufman (Eds.), Methods In Social Epidemiology (Wiley/Jossey-Bass).

DeLuca, Stefanie, Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin. 2016. Coming of Age in the Other America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Holland, Megan and Stefanie DeLuca. 2016. “Why Wait Years to Become Something_Low Income African American Youth and the Costly Search for Careers in For-Profit Programs” Sociology of Education 89: 261-278.

Rosenblatt, Peter and Stefanie DeLuca. 2015. “What Happened in Sandtown-Winchester_Understanding the Impacts of a Comprehensive Community Initiative.” Urban Affairs Review 1-32.

Condliffe, Barbara, Melody Boyd and Stefanie DeLuca. 2015. “Stuck in School_How School Choice Policies Interact with Social Context to Shape Inner City Students.” Teachers College Record 117: 1-36.

Penn IUR Scholar

Rebecca Diamond

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Class of 1988 Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business

About

Rebecca Diamond is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is an applied micro economist studying local labor and housing markets. Her recent research focuses on the causes and consequences of diverging economic growth across U.S. cities and its effects on inequality. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research from 2013 to 2014. 

Selected Publications

Diamond, Rebecca. Forthcoming. Housing Supply Elasticity and Rent Extraction by State and Local Government Workers. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Diamond, Rebecca. 2016. The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers’ Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000.” American Economic Review, 106(3): 479-524. 

Diamond, Rebecca, Thomas Barrios, Guido W. Imbens, and Michal Kolesár. 2012. Clustering, Spatial Correlations, and Randomization Inference. Journal of the American Statistical Association 107(498): 578-591.

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