Siri J. Colom is currently the Dean of Instruction and the Prison Education Program at a small college in Rhode Island that works with returning adult learners. She was a C3 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Studies and Sociology at Connecticut College through 2017.  She received her PhD in sociology in December 2014.  Her areas of research deal broadly with social change and inequality in the city, focusing on urban politics, race, and the environment. Her dissertation, based on 18 months of field research, compared the political strategies and tactics of three rebuilding struggles in post-Katrina New Orleans.