Miriam Zuk, Ph.D. is a cofounder of the Urban Displacement Project and previously served as its first director. She is now a nonresident senior fellow, acting as a strategic advisor. Miriam has over 15 years of experience in the fields of environmental justice and equitable development. She previously worked as the Deputy Director of Air Quality Research for the Mexican Ministry of Environment in Mexico City. Miriam received her Ph.D. in City Planning from UC Berkeley, her M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT and her B.A. in Environmental Sciences from Barnard College.
The project aims to understand the nature of gentrification, and displacement, and exclusion in American cities. It focuses on creating tools to help communities identify the pressures surrounding them and take more effective action.
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