Melva Treviño Peña

Dr. Heim LaFrombois’ research focuses on community development, urban inequalities, participatory forms of community planning, public policy, and feminist approaches to urban studies and research. Central to her work is a focus on community engagement as a vehicle for addressing urban inequalities with the goal of informing planning practice and policy and improving cities. Overarching themes include an examination of how urban space is used and by whom, and how urban space is regulated, paying special attention to the roles of race, class, gender, and sexuality; and an examination of how cities’ use and present data to set planning agendas.