Gabriela Rendón (she/her/la/ella) is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development, the co-coordinator of the Graduate Minor in Design and Urban Justice, and the Founding Director of the Parsons Housing Justice Lab. At the lab, she leads the Housing Justice Oral History Project which intersects oral history, critical carthography, community organizing and advocacy. Rendón’s expertise and research interests include community and spatial planning, housing and urban policy, socio-spatial restructuring, revitalization of immigrant neighborhoods, rise and settlement of Latinx urban communities, housing and tenants rights, gentrification and displacement, cooperative housing models, as well as other collective and non-speculative housing development schemes providing equitable development in profit-driven urban environments. Her trans-disciplinary practice earned her a position as Faculty Fellow at the Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility in 2023, as well as at the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought for the academic year 2022-2023.