Hilary Malson is an assistant professor in the Urban and Regional Planning area of the Humphrey School and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA). She’s a community-engaged scholar with a focus on grassroots planning, urban history, and housing justice—especially through Black studies and Black feminist frameworks. She did her doctoral work in Urban Planning at UCLA, where she also taught and researched across programs at the Luskin School of Public Affairs. 

Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Monument Lab, and the Smithsonian Institution, and has published in outlets including Planning Theory & Practice and The Handbook on Planning and Power.