Jessi Quizar

Jessi Quizar is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma in the School of Urban Studies. She researches racial capitalism, grassroots planning, and urban land and resource struggles in the U.S. Her work centers on the organizing and theorizing of Black and Indigenous communities to shape cities— particularly the city of Detroit—and has been published in Theory, Culture, and Society, Antipode, American Indian and Culture Research Journal, The Detroit People’s Atlas, and the award-winning edited volume Racial Ecologies. Jessi is a member of the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective, which uses longterm poetic conversation as a route towards building Black and Indigenous relationship and radical co-creation. Her current research explores the ways that anti-Black racism and settler colonialism operate together in processes of gentrification in Detroit.