Rena Lu’s Bio

Rena Lu - Grants & Operations Assistant

Rena is a recent graduate from UC Berkeley where she studied Legal Studies and Public Policy. During college, she worked for the Othering & Belonging Institute and conducted qualitative social science research with the Civil Justice Research Initiative.

Rena is interested in the intersection of land, citizenship, and Asian American identity. She wrote her senior thesis on the slow-growth movement in Monterey Park, examining how difference was spatialized through land-use restrictions.