Speakers
Leslie Kern
Canadian researcher and author studying inequality in cities with a focus on gender, housing, and urban mobility
Leslie Kern, PhD, is the author of three books about cities, including Gentrification Is Inevitable And Other Lies and Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World. Until 2024, she was an associate professor of geography and environment and feminist and gender studies at Mount Allison University in Canada. Kern’s research has earned a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, a National Housing Studies Achievement Award, and several national multi-year grants. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vox, Bloomberg CityLab, and Refinery29.
