Kristen E. Jeffers

Kristen Jeffers founded the Defying Gentrification with Kristen Jeffers, (formerly The Black Urbanist) multimedia platform in 2010, which brings a Black queer feminist disabled perspective to urbanism. She was named one of Planetizen’s 2023 100 Most Influential Contemporary Urbanists. Most recently, they were the contributing editor for Greater Greater Washington and have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post and on NPR affiliates, WAMU, WUNC and KCUR, with a variety of bylines.