Colleen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. Her research and teaching utilize the lens of urban geography to examine questions of social justice in food systems. She is also Director of the Charlotte Action Research Project (charp.charlotte.edu). Current research is concerned with Latinx foodways in North America. Food spaces constructed by Latinx immigrants are made visible as restaurants, grocery stores, food trucks, and other venues in the many North American cities Latinx immigrants have come to call home. Newcomers increasingly use food as a means of combating anti-immigrant sentiment and educating those around them of who they are and the cultures they bring with them. But they are also increasingly facing displacement as traditional immigrant enclaves experience neighborhood change. This research investigates such foodway construction and its displacement to better understand the evolution of immigrant place-making over space and time. Previous research has focused on urban agriculture in four cities across the Americas and food insecurity among migrant women in Washington, DC, and Medellin, Colombia.