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GMS Core Faculty member Desiree Fields testified before the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committee this week. Fields testified on the ways that private equity landlords are impacting the U.S. housing market. For more, including a transcript of the testimony, see here.

GMS DE Student Ángel Ross has won the 2021 Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Community and Urban Sociology Section. For more, see the CUSS website. Congratulations to Ángel!

GMS core faculty member Desiree Fields has won UC Berkeley’s campus-wide Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times award. Fields’ nomination focused on how digital platforms reshape urban and rural geographies. For a complete write-up, see here.

GMS Faculty Affiliate Rachel Morello-Frosch has been named to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. The Environmental Justice Advisory Council will provide advice and recommendations on addressing historical and present-day environmental injustices.

GMS Faculty Affiliate Daniel Kammen is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle’s discussion of former Michigan Governor (and UC Berkeley faculty member) Jennifer Granholm’s nomination to be Secretary of Energy in the Biden administration.

Core faculty member Alison Post (Political Science) has been elected President of the Urban and Local Politics section of the American Political Science Association (APSA).  You can read more about the organized section here.   

Joan Walker, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and GMS core faculty member, will begin a 3-year term as GMS Co-Director. She joins continuing Co-Director Matt Kondolf, as Co-Director Alison Post steps down at the end of her 3-year term.  Professor Walker’s research focus is behavioral modeling, with an expertise in discrete…

We are pleased to welcome our newest GMS core faculty member, Sai Balakrishnan.  Balakrishnan has served as Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design since 2015. Through her research and teaching, Balakrishnan focuses on processes of urbanization and planning institutions in the global south, and on the spatial politics of…

Daniel Kammen’s editorial, “How electric vehicles can help advance social justice,” was featured in the June 21 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. Kammen explores Lyft’s commitment to transition to 100% electric vehicles by 2030.