Deshonay Dozier

Dr. Dozier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at California State University – Long Beach. Her research expertise is in the fields of critical race and gender studies, Black studies, carceral geographies, urban planning and policy, cultural geography, and social movement studies. Her upcoming book titled, “Contested Development: A Poor People’s Movement for a Better Los Angeles, 1960-2020”, explores the possibility and foreclosure of freedom dreams. The book narrates how poor people abolish the penal organization of their lives by reducing policing and creating livable communities in Downtown Los Angeles. A portion of this work is published in the "International Journal for Urban and Regional Research." Dr. Dozier’s next project examines how Black women artists produce collective and imaginative praxis of land and space.