Angelica Qin

Academic Background

Angelica Qin (she/her) is a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Sociology. Her senior thesis, which is about co-ethnic gentrification in the Asian community of Flushing, Queens, won the Isidore Brown Thesis Prize in Sociology. She was involved in racial justice advocacy across housing, education, and the arts throughout her undergraduate career, for which she was awarded the Frederick Douglass Service Award. Before coming to PIRL, Angelica worked in affordable housing at the Housing Development Fund. Outside of work, Angelica enjoys yoga, trying new restaurants, and telling herself that she’ll watch a new TV show but actually just rewatching The Office and 30 Rock.

Research Interests: race & ethnicity, Asian Americans, housing policy, gentrification, spatial stratification