Baumer Series, Laura Wolf-Powers

Laura Wolf-Powers is an associate professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. She has been teaching economic and community development to graduate students since 2002, published extensively for both academic and practitioner audiences.

Recent projects include a critical examination of land value capture practices; participatory action research with Black entrepreneurs in East and Central Brooklyn; and a book, University City: History, Race, & Community in the Era of the Innovation District (Penn Press, 2022). She serves on the editorial boards of Metropolitics and of the Journal of the American Planning Association and as an academic advisor to the Urban Manufacturing Alliance, the Pratt Center for Community Development, and the Western Queens Community Land Trust.