Co-Authors
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is the Florence Everline Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is author of Gendered Transitions (1994), Domestica (2001/2007), God’s Heart Has No Borders (2008), and Paradise Transplanted (2014). She has edited or co-edited five other books.
Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor at PowerFest in 2016, South Los Angeles
Manuel Pastor
Manuel Pastor is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California where he is also the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change. His most recent book is State of Resistance: What California's Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America's Future (2018).
Contributors
The two primary authors, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor, fundamentally shaped the ideas behind this book, determined the organization of its contents, and were the primary authors on all the chapters as well as leaders in framing, editing, and assembling the manuscript with assistance from USC ERI staff. However, several individual chapters acknowledge other contributors who played a key role in extensive data collection and analysis, as well as writing in the respective chapters that include their names. While this may seem like an unconventional and novel method of attribution, we thought it an appropriate approach to recognizing the collective effort.
Pamela Stephens
Pamela Stephens is a PhD candidate in Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, where her work centers on the ways that urban planning practices produce Black spaces in Los Angeles, further examining how Black communities build power within and across them.
Alejandro Sanchez-Lopez
Alejandro Sanchez-Lopez received his MA in Urban Planning from the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy and is currently a planner for the City of Long Beach working on autonomy for Black and Brown communities.
Antar A. Tichavakunda
Antar A. Tichavakunda received his PhD in Urban Education Policy at the University of Southern California, and is Assistant Professor of Education Leadership at the University of Cincinnati, where he uses qualitative methods to study the sociology of race and higher education.
Veronica Montes
Veronica Montes received her PhD in Sociology at University of California Santa Barbara, held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California, and is now Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where her research focuses on gender and belonging among Mexican and Central American immigrants.
Robert Chlala
Robert Chlala received his PhD at the University of Southern California in 2021 and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment (IRLE), leading a state-funded study of California cannabis workers touching upon equity, policing and movements.
Adrián Trinidad
Adrián Trinidad is a PhD Candidate in Urban Education Policy at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. Raised in South Los Angeles, Adrián studies racialization, equity and organizational change in community colleges.
Walter Thompson-Hernandez
Walter Thompson-Hernández is a multimedia journalist, former New York Times reporter, and author of The Compton Cowboys (2019).
Jose Miguel Ruiz
Jose Miguel Ruiz, received his MSW from the University of Southern California, and he is the founder and CEO of CultivaLA, a nonprofit organization transforming urban agriculture through people, social enterprise, and environmental justice in downtown Los Angeles.