Terra Graziani

Terra Graziani is a Public Research Fellow at UCLA's Institute on Inequality and Democracy and a doctoral student in Geography at the City University of New York (CUNY). She co-founded the Los Angeles chapter of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a digital storytelling collective documenting displacement and resistance in gentrifying communities through research, oral history, and data visualization.

Her work critically examines intersections of property, race, and personhood within urban displacement contexts, emphasizing tenant rights and anti-eviction activism. Through AEMP, she bridges academic research with grassroots organizing, utilizing digital tools to amplify marginalized community narratives and support solidarity movements against gentrification. This approach positions her at the nexus of critical geography, social justice advocacy, and public scholarship.

Graziani actively contributes to the Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2), which advances community-engaged research, and co-founded the Los Angeles Tenant Power Movement School—an initiative launched on May 27, 2025, for educating organizers. Her role as a Public Research Fellow underscores her commitment to translating scholarly work into tangible community resources while pursuing doctoral studies at CUNY Geography.