Kate Cruz
PhD Candidate in Public Affairs, Rutgers University, Camden
Chapter Member: New Jersey-Philadelphia SSN
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About Kate
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.
Publications
"“I Live Both Lives”: Exploring Double Consciousness in Resident-Students at an Engaged Institution" (with ). 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.