Willow Lung-Amam has been promoted with tenure to Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning by the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She serves as Director of Community Development with the National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) and teaches courses in urban inequality and diversity, social planning and community development. Her scholarship focuses on how urban policies and plans contribute to and can address social inequality, particularly in neighborhoods undergoing rapid racial and economic change.
Lung-Amam writes extensively on immigrant suburbanization, equitable development, gentrification, suburban poverty and geographies of opportunity. She was recently named to the board of The National Housing Law Project (NHLP), an organization whose mission is to advance housing justice for poor people and communities through tenants’ rights, finding housing opportunities for underserved communities, as well as focusing on safe and affordable homes, immigrant rights and healthy housing, among others.
Most recently, Lung-Amam received the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Center Residential Fellowship which will allow her to focus on her second book project.
Read more in her biography.