Daniela Adriana Tagtachian

Daniela Adriana Tagtachian is a doctoral student in sociology at the Graduate Center, a poverty lawyer, and the managing editor of City & Community. Prior to joining the Graduate Center, she worked as a lecturer and community lawyer for an environmental justice clinic at a law school in Miami, Florida. While there, she worked on empowering minority communities and addressing systemic inequity through, among other projects, the development of anti-displacement strategies. She is currently researching the racial and social equity implications of new urbanism and municipalities transitioning to form-based code, focusing on the rapid mass displacement of urban, low-income communities of color. Her research interests include the politics of space, segregation, the empowerment of minority communities, urban development, urban displacement, structural inequity, systemic change, theories of social change, and the perpetuation of poverty. In addition to being a New York City Reducing Inequality Network Scholar, she is a CUNY Institute for Demographic Research Fellow.