Kimberley Johnson is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Affiliate Faculty Member of the Wagner School of New York University. Her research focuses on urban and metropolitan politics, federalism and intergovernmental relations, race and ethnic politics, and American political development, particularly the intersection between state and society.

Kimberley is the author of numerous articles as well as two books, Governing the American State (Princeton University Press) and Reforming Jim Crow (Oxford University Press). She is currently working on a book manuscript, Dark Concrete, which explores the development of black power urbanism in Newark and East Orange, New Jersey, and Oakland and East Palo Alto, California.

Before joining NYU, Johnson was the EBH Chair in Urban Studies and Political Science at Barnard College, as well as the Director of the Barnard-Columbia Urban Studies Program.

R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy is an associate professor in the Sociology of Education program in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science and Humanities at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. His central line of research concentrates on educational inequality particularly focused on the intersecting roles of race, class, and place.

His first book, Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling examined the experiences of low-income and racial minority families’ attempts at accessing school-related resources in an affluent suburb. He is currently fielding a multi-site ethnographic study in Westchester County that examines residents’ experiences with housing and schools. His larger research interests include race and racism, gender justice, and community mobilization. His research has appeared in multiple edited volumes and academic journals such as Urban Education, American Educational Research Journal, and Ethnic & Racial Studies.

Kiara Wyndham is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Their research explores the mechanisms that create and sustain racial inequality in contemporary American society. Their current research focuses on the intertwined nature of race and space to investigate the spatial production of racial inequality in suburbs.

Their work includes projects on Black suburbs, municipal incorporation, and a book examining racial inequality in highly diverse suburbs. They also lead the St. Louis Zoning Atlas, which aims to collect, standardize, and map all zoning ordinances in the St. Louis metropolitan area to better understand how zoning relates to racial and class inequalities.

Wyndham’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and more.