People

• Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, Ph.D.

  UC Berkeley

  (510) 643-8779

   

  Martin Sanchez-Jankowski is a professor of sociology at UC Berkeley and director of the Center for Urban Ethnography. He is a consultant to the city of Salinas, California on their anti-violence program. His books include Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society (UC Press 1991). He received his Ph.D. in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  
  

• Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, Ph.D.

  UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Education

   

  Dr. Seyer-Ochi is an assistant professor of education at UC Berkeley. She is an anthropologist and historian of education whose research and teaching interests focus on urban education; the history of education; families, neighborhoods, and community organizations as educative institutions; and the relationships among school and beyond-school learning contexts. She is particularly interested in the spatial production and organization of cities, neighborhoods, and learning contexts. She is a co-investigator on the Center’s research project “Youth Experiences of Neighborhood Change.”

  
  

• Jonathan Simon, Ph.D.

  UC Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy

  (510) 643-5169

   

  Jonathan Simon is the Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and a professor of law, UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Simon is the author of Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 (1993). His most recent book is Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2007).

  
  

• Kenzo Sung M.Ed.

  UC Berkeley

  2420 Bowditch Street #5670

  Berkeley, CA , 94720

   

  Kenzo Sung is currently a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education with an emphasis on educational policy and social cultural studies. Kenzo is a second generation immigrant, graduating from Berkeley High School prior to receiving his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree from Harvard University. Kenzo taught middle school for five years in East Oakland and worked collaboratively with other community organizations such as the East Bay Asian Youth Center prior to returning for his doctoral program. His current work focuses on how school policies designed around language support structure immigrant students’ social constructions of race.