She is an affiliate faculty member of the Critical & Environmental Psychology program. She does participatory action research with young people investigating the everyday intimate experiences of global urban restructuring, specifically as it concerns gentrification, immigration, education, and discriminatory policing. Caitlin is interested in creating collective spaces for dialogue, creativity, knowledge production, critical research and action. Before coming to CUNY, Caitlin worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. In Salt Lake City, she co-founded the Mestizo Arts & Activism Collective (with Matt Bradley and David Quijada), an intergenerational social justice think tank that engages young people as catalysts of change in a model integrating community-based collective research, arts and activism.