CityForum is the Community and Regional Planning program’s monthly lecture series that brings together experts from all across the disciplinary spectrum to speak on pressing issues that deal with people and the environments they live in. Lunch will be provided!

This week we have: Laurel Mei-Singh, a devoted public scholar, serves as an Assistant Professor of Geography and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include environmental justice, militarization, the relationship of race and indigeneity to histories of war, and the Pacific. Her current project develops a genealogy of military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Wai‘anae, a rural and heavily militarized region in Hawai’i.