Margaret Haltom

Margaret Haltom is a second-year urban planning PhD student. In her research and on-the-ground projects, she collaborates with resident researchers, community development corporations, organizers and social service providers to understand the impact of anti-displacement housing policies, from community land trusts to tenant protections. She also studies the history of racial land dispossession that these programs seek to repair. Prior to her PhD, she worked in her hometown of Memphis, TN, where she was Director of Emergency Rent and Housing Policy for the Works Community Development Corporation. She has served as a freelance planner on affordable housing development projects, a neighborhood mapper for resident coalitions, and a teacher and facilitator of youth design programs in public schools and housing developments. She received her master's in planning from Harvard and her B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia.