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We would like to announce a new book talk series going forward for GMS Faculty Affiliates who are in book disciplines. GMS will be hosting interdisciplinary book talks for faculty affiliates soon after books on urban issues are released.

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.

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.

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.