Ángel Mendiola Ross is a PhD candidate in sociology with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. As a Berkeley Computational Social Science and Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow, Ángel conducts research at the intersection of (sub)urban sociology, race and inequality, policing, incarceration and housing. Their recent publication in Social Problems empirically tests for evidence of racial threat and renter threat in California suburbs with a focus on communities on the receiving end of gentrification and displacement from the coastal urban core. Their current project examines the relationship between prison proliferation and residential segregation. Before pursuing a PhD, they received a Master of City Planning from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley and BAs in sociology and economics from the University of Southern California. They previously worked as a senior research associate at PolicyLink based in Oakland, California.
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