Cynthia Brito
Research Assistant
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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About
Cynthia Brito is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Cynthia’s research examines how practices of the informal economy like mutual aid and co-ops allow Black and Latinx communities to survive and thrive in an era of multi-scalar crisis. She is a community organizer in areas of racial justice, abolition, and immigration. She serves as the advisor to the Revolutionary Oak Park Youth Action League (ROYAL) a community youth organization of BIPOC youth working on issues of racial justice, LGBTQIA+, and police violence.