Raj Bhargava is a second year undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Economics and minoring in both Public Policy and Creative Writing. His passions lie in urban inequalities of opportunity, and especially gentrification and racialized disparities in community involvement and education. Raj is a contributor to the Haas Institute's Just Public Finance program and researches the financial structuring of public institutions through the Great Recession as well as the broader trend of municipal financialization.