Sonia Torres Rodríguez is a research assistant in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Rodríguez’s research interests include racial equity, community empowerment, and economic mobility.

Before joining Urban, Torres Rodríguez was a research fellow for Stanford’s American Voices Project, a national qualitative and ethnographic study of poverty and inequality in the United States.

Sonia graduated from Rice University with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematical economic analysis.

Greater DC blog posts

Three Ways to Prevent Physical Displacement of Black Latines in DC and Beyond

How Can DC Reverse and Prevent Cultural Displacement of Black Latines?