Angelica Qin

Academic Background

Angelica Qin (she/her) is an incoming Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab. As a Project 55 Fellow, she currently works in affordable housing at the Housing Development Fund. Angelica graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Sociology. Her senior thesis, which is about 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. Outside of her research and advocacy, Angelica has experience in theatrical lighting design, and she hopes to get involved in the performing arts again in Baltimore.

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