Kate Cruz

PhD Candidate in Public Affairs, Rutgers University-Camden

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Cruz is a PhD Candidate in Public Affairs at Rutgers University–Camden. Cruz's research focuses on critical environmental justice; land tenure and race and resistance. Overarching themes in Cruz's writings are exploring trauma and restoration in urban agriculture in the Philadelphia Region. In addition; Cruz is an Adjunct Professor at Eastern University in the Sociology Department teaching courses related to social stratification; inequality; and social justice.

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"“I Live Both Lives”: Exploring Double Consciousness in Resident-Students at an Engaged Institution" (with Thomas A. Dahan, Anetha Perry, Brian Hammell, and Stephen Danley). Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 25, no. 2 (Summer 2019).

Finds resident-students experience double consciousness as they navigate civic engagement in a racaialized city at a predominately white institution.