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Erica Anjum is a doctoral student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley whose dissertation focuses on developing resilient communities in the face of catastrophic wildfires in California and globally. Her past work centered on issues of equitable access to urban infrastructure and basic services, particularly water, in megacities of the global South and in migrant and refugee settlements. Erica holds bachelor’s and master degrees from UCLA, where she also directed a research center and taught courses in international development prior to coming to UC Berkeley.