The Workers' Center as Space of Community Organizing

Laura Y. Liu is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the New School for Public Engagement.

She holds a PhD in Geography from Rutgers University and is an expert on urban, political, and feminist geography, gender and ethnic studies, community and class organizing, migration and work, race and space, and Chinatowns.

Laura Liu‘s recent publications include “Blank Slates and Disaster Zones: The State, September 11, and the Displacement of Chinatown“ in the anthology In Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State (Ed. Michael Sorkin) as well as “Counterhegemony and Context: Racial Crisis, Warfare, and Real Estate in the Neoliberal City“ in the journal Urban Geography.