Urban Redevelopment and Neighborhood Gentrification in Global Contexts

Carol Camp Yeakey is the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences, in the School of Arts & Sciences, and Professor of Public Health, in the School of Public Health, as well as, the former Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and its Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

Ming Yin is a Senior Researcher at Education Northwest (USA) with a focus on deliberate and relational human development and its intersectionality with lived experiences and backgrounds. Her research examines how socially structured dimensions - such as race, gender, culture and class - interact within broader contexts to shape lives and learning trajectories. Prior to joining Education Northwest, she was a research analyst and postdoctoral research fellow at Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.S. in Social Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Byung-Hoon Cheon is based in South Korea and works as a Senior Analyst at the Seoul office of Tishman Speyer, a global real estate developer, where he focuses on domestic investments, including multifamily and other long-term, sustainable real estate asset classes. He earned a bachelor's degree in Urban Studies, with honors, from Washington University in St. Louis, and further honed his practical expertise in real estate development and finance through a master's degree in Real Estate at Harvard University, USA.