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The Latin American Cities student group has launched a new podcast series, “Sur-Urbano,” where members talk to leading scholars on Latin American cities about their work, the cities they love and how to make them better. Sur-Urbano is available on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts.  

GMS Faculty Affiliate Kenichi Soga has won the Bakar Fellows Program 2022 Bakar Prize. The prize is awarded to faculty to provide resources to help apply the technological solutions they have developed in their research to critical problems facing the world today. For the full announcement, see here.

GMS Core Faculty member Desiree Fields recently published an editorial in the Washington Post. In the piece, she discusses the implications of increasing corporate involvement in the housing sector. The full text is available here.

GMS Faculty Affiliate Daniel Kammen has been named a senior advisor for energy, climate, and innovation to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). For more details, see here.

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.