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Deyanira Nevarez Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Urban & Regional Planning Program at Michigan State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Urban Environmental Planning with an emphasis on Chicano/Latino Studies from the University of California, Irvine. Her research primarily focuses on the role of the state in housing precarity and informality, with major themes including the criminalization of poverty in the United States. Additionally, she has examined the issues of gentrification, racial equity, land use transportation, racial segregation, and bail reform. Nevarez Martinez employs qualitative methods as an ethnographer to explore these critical social issues.
Department of Psychology