Caitlin Cahill is an assistant professor at the University of Utah where she teaches community studies. Her areas of interest include the production of race and gender in space, collaborative and participatory research approaches, urban restructuring, community development, cultural representations, and public space & art. Caitlin's research has focused on the everyday lives of young women growing up in New York City. In her dissertation, she looked at the relationship between young working class women of color's identity development, representations, and urban development. At the center of her study was a participatory project in which she worked with a group of six young women to develop a project entitled "Makes Me Mad: Stereotypes of Young Urban Womyn of Color," a sticker campaign, and a website (www.fed-up-honeys.org). Currently she is developing a parallel project in Salt Lake City, UT in order to understand how economic restructuring is experienced by young people here.

Caitlin is on the editorial staff of the journal Children, Youth, and Environments and Co-Chair of the Participation Network of EDRA.