Ivester, Sukari

Sukari Ivester is an urban sociologist with broad interests in urban planning, the social determinants of health, the politics of resistance and urban history. Her recent work explores the social impacts of gentrification and displacement in Rio de Janeiro and the San Francisco Bay Area. Ivester’s current research includes urban planning for population loss in the gulf parishes, in addition to a comparative social history of urban slavery in New Orleans and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Her coursework in the School of Professional Advancement's Humanities and Social Sciences Program includes: Urban Space, Place, and Inequality; Health, Medicine, and Society; Sociology of Travel and Tourism; and Social Justice, Inequality, and Activism in 21st Century Brazil. Ivester previously taught at the University of Chicago, University of California–Berkeley and California State University. She earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago and a BA in sociology from the University of California–Berkeley. Following the completion of her PhD, Ivester was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Public Health at UC–Berkeley.