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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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

GMS Faculty Affiliate Rachel Morello-Frosch has been named to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.