Andrés F. Ramirez

Andrés F. Ramirez is a doctoral student in the department of urban planning at the University of California Los Angeles. His research interests include public space, Southern urban theories, insurgent planning, and Indigenous urbanism. As part of his dissertation, Andres accompanies Indigenous urban communities in Colombia and studies their claims for Indigenous Rights to the City. This research examines how Indigenous struggles contest and reconfigure state-based property regimes. Andres also works as a graduate student researcher at the Institute for Transportation Studies, where he supports a multi-year research project on the impact that freeways have on ethnic groups across Southern California. Andres is an alumnus of the Urban Humanities Initiative and is a member of the UnCommon Public Space Group, a collective that uses community-based events to explore pressing public space issues and to advance spatial justice.