Celina Su

Grounded in specific struggles and with specific communities, Celina Su‘s scholarly, pedagogical, and creative work focuses on everyday struggles for collective governance, centering economic democracy and racial justice. She is the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and a Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, a former Senior Democracy Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and a recipient of a Berlin Prize in public policy. Her writing includes Landia, a book of poetry, as well as three books on the politics of social policy and civil society, three poetry chapbooks, and pieces in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Review, n+1, Harper’s, and elsewhere.