Meet the Research Team
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LaDale Winling
PROJECT DIRECTOR
VIRGINIA TECH
LaDale is a historian at Virginia Tech, one of the co-creators of Mapping Inequality on redlining and the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, and author of the book Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century.
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Maura Fennelly
DIRECTOR OF CHICAGO RESEARCH
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Maura is a PhD student at Northwestern and studied Political Science and Sociology at American University and worked as an Americorps VISTA with the Chicago Rehab Network, an affordable housing nonprofit. Her graduate research is on inequality in neighborhood-level participation and the rise of single-family rentals since the Great Recession.
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Anika Miro-Quesada
RESEARCHER
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Anika is an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago majoring in history. She began working with the CCP the summer of 2023.
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Zach Ashby
RESEARCHER
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Zach is an urban studies major and began volunteering with the CCP in the summer of 2023.
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Connor Tooman
RESEARCHER
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Connor is an undergraduate student at Northwestern University studying Human Communication Sciences and Legal Studies. He hopes to graduate in June 2024 and pursue a law degree.
Meet the Tech Team
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Jonathan Petters
VT LIBRARIES
Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services. Jonathan provides research data management planning, training, and curation support to researchers across Virginia Tech through the University Libraries.
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Bogdan Ivanytsia
Bogdan is an undergraduate student at Virginia Tech pursuing a major in Geography and a minor in Geographic Information Systems. They are passionate about using their GIS skills to tell compelling stories and inform people around them.
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Imma Mwanja
VT LIBRARIES
Imma is the Geospatial Data Curator at Virginia Tech. She has a background in Urban and Regional Planning with a major focus on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She uses her GIS expertise to provide geospatial data support to researchers, faculty, staff, students and the Virginia Tech community in general through the University Libraries.
Meet the Advisory Board
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Dr. Tennille Allen
LEWIS UNIVERSITY
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Dr. D. Bradford Hunt
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
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Logan Jaffe
PROPUBLICA
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Dr. Laura McEnany
NEWBERRY LIBRARY
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Dr. Desmond Odugu
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE
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Dr. Jonathan Rose
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO
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Bennett Miller
RESEARCHER EMERITUS
Ben is an alumnus of the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the lived and imagined realities of race in the post Civil Rights era. He has contributed to projects for the National Archives, American Historical Association, Norton & Company, WETA-TV, and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. He works for a federal contractor on housing policy.
Chloe Zheng
RESEARCHER EMERITA
Chloe graduated from the University of Chicago and is now pursuing a master’s degree at NYU.
Carlos Velasco
RESEARCHER EMERITUS
Carlos was a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Urban Planning and Policy (MUPP) program at UIC. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago housing discrimination is something that has affected him and his family. In this role, Carlos created data that will help former, current and future residents of Chicago.
Victoria Kurlander
RESEARCHER EMERITA
Tory is an alumna of the Masters of Urban Planning and Policy (MUPP) program at UIC. She is fascinated by historical discrimination in housing and land use, particularly in Chicago, community storytelling, and the idea of empowerment vis à vis community development and education.
Molly Delaney
RESEARCHER EMERITA
Molly graduated with an MUPP from the University of Illinois-Chicago and now works for an urban planning firm in Chicago.
Hannah Lahti
RESEARCHER EMERITA
Hannah is a PhD student at LUC. Her research focuses include public history, historical memory, museums, and oral history. Some of her recent work includes the revision of the National Park Service's National Historic Landmark for the Oscar Stanton DePriest house in Chicago, Illinois.
Jennalee Beazley
RESEARCHER EMERITA
Jennalee is a law student at Duke University and editor of the law review. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech in May 2019 with degrees in Economics, International Studies, and Spanish and a minor in P.P.E (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics).
Steven Foy
RESEARCHER EMERITUS
Steven works at Amazon and graduated with a history degree from Virginia Tech.
Support
This project has been generously supported by the Newberry Library, by the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and Virginia Tech Libraries, by Loyola University Chicago’s History Department, and by dozens of volunteer researchers.