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Evan Davis, PhD, is a community-based researcher and advocate working to realize more just housing arrangements and environmental conditions in cities. He recently completed his doctorate at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, where he specialized in urban planning and qualitative and spatial methods.
Evan has collaborated with neighborhood organizations across the Twin Cities, including those in Cedar Riverside, North Minneapolis, Phillips, Frogtown, and Rondo, as well as with regional and statewide community organizations. His work centers neighborhoods as sites of radical grassroots planning, where ordinary people build skills, knowledge, and capacity to meet immed ate needs and connect local struggles to broader movements for social change.