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Maria Carrizosa is Assistant Director of the Observatory on Latin America at The New School University and Adjunt Associate Professor in architecture, urban studies, urban development, housing, and international affairs at CUNY’s City University of New York and at The New School. Her interdisciplinary research on the overlap between informal housing and informal employment, connects visual studies with urban policy through a feminist micro-geography of labor. She has 20 years of professional experience in research, policy analysis, program management, and editorial projects working for international finance institutions, universities, and non-profits in Latin America, Africa, and the US.

Degrees Held

• PhD in Public and Urban Policy, The New School (2021)
• MA in Geography, Universidad de Los Andes (2021) 
• MPhil in Public and Urban Policy, The New School (2018)
• MS in International Affairs, The New School (2014)
• BA in Philosophy, Universidad de Los Andes (2003)
• BA in Architecture, Universidad de Los Andes (2002)

Recent Publications

Carrizosa, Maria. (2023). Homes at Work: Urban Informality and Recognition in Latin America and Africa, Advances in Regional Economics, Routledge, Oxford. (Forthcoming)

Carrizosa, Maria. (2022). Urban Informality and the Making of African Cities, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Nairobi. Web

Carrizosa, Maria. (2021). “Informalidad” [“Informality”], Glosario de las ciudades [ , Corti, M. (ed), Editorial Café de las Ciudades, Buenos Aires

Cohen, M. Carrizosa, M., and Gutman M. (eds.). (2020), Urban Policy in Latin America: Towards the Sustainable Development Goals?  Routledge, Oxford.

Cohen, Carrizosa, and Gutman (eds.), (2019), Facing Risk: New Urban Resilience Practices in Latin America, Corporación Andina de Fomento CAF – The New School, Buenos Aires. (Spanish publication available)

United Nations Development Programme - UNDP. (2019). National Human Development Report, Nursultan, Kazakhstan. Web (Lead author)