At Hyams, she coordinates the Black and Indigenous Resistance Fund. It is a collaborative effort between Hyams and other foundations in the area to create a long-term pool of funding for Black and Indigenous groups so they can continue to organize. The allocation of the money will be led by grassroots leaders in the area. She is learning to facilitate meetings and interrogate power dynamics in philanthropy.

In addition, Jasmine is leading the refining of criteria for the Foundation’s Special Opportunities Fund to align it with the goal of supporting grassroots organizations and addressing community crises (such as COVID). She is also working on communications strategies to amplify the work of grantee partners.

Her dissertation on policing in Chicago is part of the knowledge base she uses in working with groups that are organizing against police violence and the carceral system. As an engaged scholar, she sees her role as supporting social movement activists by channeling philanthropic dollars to organizations led by people of color.

In addition to the Center for Engaged Scholarship, her dissertation project has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, the American Society of Criminology, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

In Fall 2021, Sadé will join the Departments of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology at Cornell University as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then as an Assistant Professor in Summer 2023. More broadly, her research interests include racial inequality, reentry and employment, women’s incarceration experiences, drug policy and use, and media portrayals and public perceptions of crime. Sadé’s work has been published in Social Problems, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and The Prison Journal.

As a strong advocate for racial equity and justice, her research is often informed by her direct service to incarcerated and other disadvantaged populations. She spent three years preparing young boys and men in a juvenile prison for reentry through financial and career goal planning and resume-building activities in addition to holistic activities on fatherhood, education, and health and wellness. She also collaborates with a non-profit organization based in California to publish a research report meant to inform the general public on LGBT people’s experiences in the criminal justice system. Sadé continues to advocate for issues surrounding racial equity, incarceration, and reentry through her involvement with local reentry organizations and coalitions.

Silas is a 2021-2023 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. Broadly, their work examines how settler colonial administrative practices produce environmental violence as well as the very conditions of its intelligibility across legal, regulatory, and scientific domains. With Diné colleagues, Silas is currently developing a new research project on energy transitions, environmental justice, and the politics of land.

Silas is actively engaged in environmental justice and health equity work, and is currently co-producing a full-length documentary film on the Indigenous-led fight to protect the Greater Chaco landscape from fracking. To learn more, visit Silas’s website.

Daanika Gordon completed her dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.

Daanika’s research explores the institutional production of racial difference and inequality, with a specific focus on the criminal justice system.

Her current project investigates the relationships between residential segregation and policing strategies. Work related to this project has been funded by the National Science Foundation and appears in Law & Social Inquiry.

In previous projects, Daanika has studied how racial typifications of neighborhoods permeate individuals’ daily mobility patterns, and how institutional practices in a drug court impact clients’ pathways through the program.

Daanika is an active participant in ongoing national conversations on policing and criminal justice reform. She recently presented at the “Reimaginging/Reinventing Police” conference hosted by the University of Chicago, and she participated in a convening on “Reimaging Public Safety” hosted by the Yale Justice Collaboratory and the Policing Project at NYU Law.

At Tufts, Daanika is on the faculty advisory committee of the Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College.

As an environmentalist and a political ecologist her work focuses on public green spaces and how urban “sustainable development” initiatives and environmental policies and practices impact and shape land-uses and public park access.

Dr. Corbin examines both sides of environmental (in)justice, the uneven distribution of environmental harms and the uneven development of environmental goods in which low-income residents and Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian (BILA) communities are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards while also being prevented from benefiting from environmental amenities.

Corbin incorporates media studies and visual culture, often deploying speculative fiction and Afrofuturism, to understand how images represent and influence environmental, racial, and spatial understandings of urban spaces. Her research shows how historical processes of urbanization and current urban environmental policies, at scale, influence and contribute to the environmental injustices being (re)produced today, while also questioning what that could mean for future populations living in green sustainable cities.

Dr. Corbin completed her doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

Her dissertation is titled, From Redlining to Greenlining: The Political Ecology of Race, Class, and Access to Green Space in Oakland, California from 1937-2020. She served on the Oakland Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission (PRAC) from 2015-2020 and was the chair of the PRAC from 2019-2020.

During her tenure with the PRAC, Dr. Corbin placed Oakland’s urban municipal parks within an environmental justice lens and took an Environmental Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (Environmental J.E.D.I.) approach to park policies and practices. She worked on the campaign team for Measure Q “The 2020 Oakland Parks and Recreation Preservation, Litter Reduction, and Homelessness Support Act,” which was successfully voted in by the City of Oakland on March of 2020, and she also contributed to Oakland’s 2020 Equitable Climate Action Plan.

As the PRAC chair and now a current board member of the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation, Dr. Corbin was a main author and contributor to the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation’s “Parks & Equity: The Promise of Oakland’s Parks a Survey of Oaklander’s Park Experiences and Perspectives Report,” completed in December 2020.

Corbin’s work is now exploring public parks beyond recreation by studying the relationships between public park infrastructures and social networks and examining how municipalities can create new strategies to serve vulnerable residents during climate change and severe weather events.

Madeleine’s writing has also appeared in The Guardian and The Times, and her and her research have been featured on NPR’s 1A and Weekend Edition, PBS Newshour, Radiolab, BBC World Service and Newshour, and CBC Radio’s Q and The Current, among other outlets. She has also been consulted by the International Olympic Committee as part of their efforts to promote inclusive women’s sport, and served as a witness in the 2015 appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport of World Athletic’s Hyperandrogenism Regulations, brought by Indian athlete Dutee Chand.

Madeleine is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne, having been a Science in Human Culture Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University in 2019-2020.

Building on her dissertation research, her current book project explores the phenomenon of “biofeminism:” a political formation that seeks to root gender equity and women’s inclusion in a binary model of biological difference and which is characterized by the pursuit of “sex” as an object of scientific knowledge and regulation. The project explores the impacts of biofeminism on intersectionally inclusive gender equity in biomedicine and sport. Madeleine is also working with collaborators in the United Kingdom and Australia to build a Gender Inclusive Sport Lab, with the aim of redirecting current debates around inclusion in women’s sport away from regulation and towards constructive policy interventions that can foster the inclusion of sex and gender minoritized people in grassroots, collegiate, and elite and professional sport.

Madeleine’s engaged scholarly trajectory is deeply influenced by her background as an elite athlete. She competed for Australia in the women’s 800m at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009, where she raced against South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya. Madeleine seeks to use her unique athletic and academic platform to promote both nuanced public discussion on the regulation of women with high testosterone and novel contributions to feminist and sociological scholarship. Madeleine is also a dedicated teacher and has led courses on sociology of gender, gender health and medicine, and feminist technoscience at both UW-Madison and Northwestern University.

In her current work, Idit is looking at diversity admission programs at Israeli higher education institutions. Specifically, she studies the implications of the Israeli system’s focus on national and religious categories in admissions on who the institutions recruit and serve when they strive for greater educational equality. As part of her work, she is a member of the Ben Gurion chapter of “Israeli Hope”, a national effort for greater equality in academic and education, where she advises the university on how to shape admission questionnaires and criteria to include first generation college students who are currently not included in the university’s admissions efforts.

Idit’s work has been published in Sociology of Education and Travel Behavior and Society, and also in the New York City Blog Urban Matters.

His research focuses on poverty, housing, and homelessness in US cities.  Chris’ work has been published or is forthcoming in academic journals including the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, City and Community, City, Teaching Sociology and book chapters in edited volumes of Anthropology, Urban Studies, Social Movements, Geography, and Community-based Research.  His writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, Places, Progressive Planning, Shelterforce, the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, and several homeless street newspapers across the US and Canada.

His research has been featured in Citylab, NBC, CBS, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, KQED Forum, The Huffington Post, SF Weekly, The Baltimore Sun, The Daily Telegraph, and on KPFA’s Against the Grain among other outlets.

His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Center for Engaged Scholarship, the Berkeley Law School’s Human Rights Center, the Empirical Legal Studies Workshop at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, the Sociological Initiatives Foundation, and the Horowitz Foundation.

Chris’ research, writing, and teaching embraces the ideals of public sociology.  He has collaborated on three major studies and publications with the National Coalition on Homelessness and San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, the latter where he continues to organize as a member of their Human Rights Workgroup.  He has also collaborated on research with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, the Western Regional Advocacy Project, and ACORN.

Chris regularly consults with think-tanks, county governments, and legal aid groups. He is an editor and co-founder of the new Berkeley Journal of Sociology: an online-first graduate run publication of public scholarship aimed at broadening the interpretive range and prospective application of social research to political struggles, emerging cultural trends, and alternative futures.

Before coming to Berkeley, Chris completed an MA in Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (2010) and a BA in Economics from Bard College (2008).  He also worked as a Project Manager in New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

To learn more about Chris’ work, visit his website by clicking here.

Since 2018, Ayca has been an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College. She has published “Inside the Black Box: Credibility and the Situational Power of Central Banks” in Socio-Economic Review and “Building Confidence ‘on the Ground’” in The Political Economy of Central Banking in Emerging Economies (by Routledge).

Her article entitled “Central Banks and the Need to Cultivate Credibility” has recently been accepted for publication in Contexts. She has presented numerous papers at conferences including the Americal Sociological Association and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Additionally, she was part of a workshop on “New Perspectives on the Structural Power of Finance” held at the London School of Economics in December 2019 and she participated in “The Great Transformation at 75” — a conference bringing together engaged scholars and intellectuals at Bennington College in 2019.