Jessica Lopez Lyman

Jessica Lopez Lyman is an interdisciplinary community-engaged scholar and artist who studies Latino communities and social transformation in the urban Midwest. Her research contributes to social movement and urban studies scholarship by studying how Latina/x artists participate in and shape contemporary social movements through their aesthetics. She offers a new spatial paradigm, “place-keeping,” as a strategy to combat gentrification and research housing justice practices that mitigate Latino displacement and housing insecurity.