Yvette Chen is a Master of City Planning candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interest is in fair and equitable housing through a racial equity framework. This includes the development of fair housing through legal frameworks and equitable housing disaster recovery. Prior to joining the Haas Institute, Yvette earned her BA from Oberlin College in Sociology and Economics. She has worked for several years at Fair Share Housing Center, a non-profit fair housing law firm in New Jersey that works through the Mount Laurel Doctrine to create housing in areas of opportunity and end exclusionary housing patterns. At the Haas Institute, she will work with the California Community Partnerships team on visualizations and research related to exclusionary housing policies in the Bay Area.
