⎯⎯Selected Media⎯⎯

Quoted in Washington Post, “A Pizzeria’s Mockery of Marion Barry Struck A Nerve in a Changed D.C.” (November 2)

Interviewed for ABC News Bay Area, “Attacks Against Vice President Kamala Harris Highlight Underlying Issues of Misogynoir” (July 23)

Interviewed for ABC News Bay Area, “California’s Case for Reparations: ‘We Are History in the Making’” (April 4)

Interviewed for NBC San Diego, “How the Realtor Settlement May Impact Home Sellers and Buyers in San Diego” (March 17)

Quoted in Landscape Architecture Magazine, “Past Imperfect” (June 29)

Interviewed for ABC News Bay Area, “Remembering the ‘Harlem of the West’: A Local Musician’s Mission to Preserve Oakland’s Blues Culture” [video] (February 27)

Interviewed for Tales of the Town podcast, “Houselesness in Oakland” (October 25)

Quoted in KQED, “’A Lesson in Discrimination’: A Toxic Sea Level Rise Crisis Threatens West Oakland” (September 13)

Quoted in New York Times,”Revitalizing Black Neighborhoods by Preserving Their History” (November 23)

Interviewed for 1919Radio podcast, “Gentrifying Blackness with Dr. Brandi Summers” (June 18)

Interviewed for Community Visions podcast, “Gentrification & Criminalization” (June)

Quoted in Los Angeles Times, “As Immigrants Seek Refuge, America Struggles to Live up to its Promise” (May 6)

Interviewed for NPR’s Woke History podcast, “Black in Place” (March 17)

Quoted in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, “Scholars View Washington, D.C.’s Statehood Prospects” (January 28)

Interviewed for New Dawn podcast, “Neoliberalism and Gentrification in a Chocolate City” (January 22)

Interviewed on Aljazeera The Stream, “’Residue’: What is Lost to Gentrification?” (December 2)

Interviewed for New Books Network podcast, “Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City” (November 4)

Quoted in DCist, “What does D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza Mean to D.C. Residents? It Depends on Who You Ask” (August 27)

Interviewed on The Kojo Nnamdi Show, “What Black Lives Matter Plaza Means To Washingtonians” (August 25)

Interviewed for The Real News Network, “Thinking Beyond Representation: Progressives Weigh in on Harris’ Past” (August 14)

Quoted and cited in New York Times, “Riots Long Ago, Luxury Living Today” (July 10)

Interviewed for The Monocle Weekly podcast, “The Thinkers Edition: Life in the City” [audio] (July 5)

Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, “How 6 Feet of Social Distance is Changing the Relationship with Our Own Space” (June 1)

Interviewed for Political Misfits, “Pandemic, Privatization, a Battle in Brasilia, Black in Aesthetic Only” [audio] (May 7)

Interviewed for Washingtonian, “Horace and Dickie’s is Closing: What That Means for D.C.’s Black-Owned Businesses” (February 13)

Interviewed for Interstitial podcast, “Black in Place” [audio]

Interviewed for Unravel podcast, “Fashion and Architecture in Place: Interview with Dr. Brandi T. Summers” [audio] 

Quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “When Faculty of Color Feel Isolated” (October 22)

Quoted in Univision, "‘Vete a tu país’: lo que esconde la frase preferida de los racistas que ahora también usa Trump” (July 21)

Interviewed on Richmond NBC12, “Digital Dialogue: A Conversation about Race, Politics in Virginia” (February 12) [video]

Quoted in ABC News, “Virginia blackface scandals a reminder of racist practice and its traumatic effect on African-Americans” (February 9)

Featured in Richmond Magazine, “Roll the Clip” (December 5)

Cited on Me My Thoughts and Eyes podcast, “Feeling Good, Feeling Great” (October 17)

Quoted in Equal Times, “The Steady Decline of African-American Culture in Washington, D.C.” (August 22)

Quoted in Glamour, “Why Do We See So Much of Ourselves in Meghan Markle?” (May 18)

Featured in RVA Magazine, “VCU Professors Take a Critical Look at Black Panther Film” (March 20)

Quoted in The Guardian, “DC institution Ben’s Chili Bowl repaints famous mural - without Bill Cosby” (June 25)

Interviewed for Top Rank podcast, “Elements of Style” [audio]

Interviewed for Fox5NY Films, “Yellow Tape” [video]