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Law, Justice, and Politics Talk with attorney Alisa Hartz

Alisa Hartz is a staff attorney at Public Counsel, the nation’s largest pro bono law firm.  She is part of the Opportunity Under Law project, which uses impact litigation and community organizing to advance civil rights and economic justice in California and nationally.  Her cases have focused on the right to literacy under the California Constitution (Ella T. v. State of California), the right to appropriate services for mentally disabled homeless people being released from jail (Powers v.

Wendy Cheng: “Troubling Relationships to Property”

Wendy Cheng is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Scripps College. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, comparative racialization, critical geography, urban and suburban studies, and diaspora. She is the author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Pulido and Laura Barraclough; University of California Press, 2012).