Deshonay Dozier

 Deshonay Dozier is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work investigates urban development, policing and abolitionist place-making.  Her current book project details a tradition of abolition where poor and unhoused people in Los Angeles challenge the penal organization of their lives brought on by urban redevelopment. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography and it has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies. Dozier is a University of California Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Urban Planning and the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA and holds a position as Assistant Professor of Human Geography at CSU Long Beach. 

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