Was honored to be invited to participate in an amazing workgroup meeting of CIFAR: Humanity’s Urban Future ahead of this year’s AAG meeting and share a bit of my dissertation research. An international group of urban geographers, all concerned with the various ways the tech industry intersects with and shapes cities, gathered at the UC Santa Cruz campus for a day of short presentations and moderated discussion, followed by a weekend touring the greater Bay Area. Together with Miriam Greenberg, I assisted with planning a tour of Silicon Valley from data centers to Tech HQs. It was a great, if belated, closing event for my pandemic dissertation work that included far more reading and writing in solitude than has ever been my praxis.
Kristin M. Miller 