Faculty Fellows
Current Faculty Fellows (2021 - 2022)
Cory Aragon
Cory Aragon earned his Ph.D at the University of Colorado, Boulder, taking positions at Dickinson College and Concordia College before becoming Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Cal Poly Pomona. His research focuses on questions of individual responsibility to remedy structural injustice, both material and epistemic, and he works primarily in the fields of contemporary social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, and global justice. He teaches courses at CPP including Social and Political Philosophy, Global Justice, Race and Racism, and Ethics, Environment, and Society, and he taught CCEP’s 2019-2020 Ethics & Policy Seminar on War and the California Experience. His recent publications include “Global Gender Justice and Epistemic Oppression: A Response to an Epistemic Dilemma” (Feminist Philosophy Quarterly) and, with Alison Jaggar, “Agency, Complicity, and the Responsibility to Resist Structural Injustice” (Journal of Social Philosophy).
Brady Collins
Brady Collins received his Ph.D in Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA in Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Having spent several years as a policy advocate in the housing and labor movement in Los Angeles, much of his teaching and research is focused on Los Angeles, though he has also conducted research in Barcelona, Tokyo, and Shanghai. His areas of expertise are in community and economic development, urban politics, housing policy, and ethnic enclaves. He serves on the Board of the Directors for the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), where he provides research support to city and statewide campaigns to further housing equity and workers’ rights. Brady’s current research investigates the politics of housing development and homelessness services implementation in Los Angeles. He teaches courses on public administration, public policy, qualitative methods, and urban governance in Los Angeles.
Nicole Lambrou
Nicole’s work focuses on the politics of climate resilience and how they inform urban environmental transformations. Her research documents the work of planners, engineers, designers, ecologists, and everyday urban dwellers in addressing extreme climate events, and explores the values and spatial imaginaries that drive their efforts. Nicole formed a non-profit, tinkercraft: design & advocacy group, to take on projects framed by this research and to work with communities facing climate risks. Currently, tinkercraft is involved with a number of initiatives in Wilmington, Los Angeles, that address environmental and social justice through design and advocacy work. Nicole is an architect, urban designer, and researcher with experience in designing and building initiatives for public space. She received an M.Arch. from Yale University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her current research looks at how exposure, social vulnerability, and adaptive capacity of populations facing wildfire risk in California are assessed.
Cynthia Aguilar
Cynthia Aguilar is the web consultant for the CCEP. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Informatics as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from UC Irvine. She is passionate about UX Design & Research, learning about languages, and skating on weekends.Prior Faculty Fellows (2020 - 2021)
