Welcome!

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. I am also a member of the Evicted in Oregon research team at Portland State University.

I received my Ph.D. in Public Affairs with a minor in Population Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2023. Before coming to the United States, I earned my master’s degree in urban planning from Tsinghua University, China.

My research interests encompass housing policy, eviction, population health, and environmental justice. My academic work in these fields has been published in Housing Policy Debate, Cities, and Socius.

My research on subsidized housing evictions has been covered by the Oregonian/OregonLive and KOIN 6.

Please feel free to contact me at: yiw1@wustl.edu