Abbey Chambers, PhD, Founder, President & CEO
Abbey Chambers is a social science researcher who studies economic inequities and exclusions. She uses social structure and visual culture theories to analyze decision-making processes and their outcomes, particularly as those outcomes impact marginalized people and places.
Dr. Chambers holds a PhD in American Studies from Indiana University, Indianapolis, a Master of Arts degree in art history from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Bachelor of Science degree in art history from Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI.
The thought-leadership of several authors guides how Justways Research approaches and analyzes community-based study.
Kathleen Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
Paul Collier, The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
Robin D’Angelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Stuart Hall, Encoding, Decoding
Cheryl Harris, Whiteness as Property
David Harvey, The Right to the City
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space
Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of the American Community
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
Edward Soja, Seeking Spatial Justice