Deborah Freedman Lustig is a Research Associate at the
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI), UC Berkeley. Lustig earned
her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her research has
focused on gender, education, and youth violence in the United States and
Kenya, where she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 2004-5. Her research on teenage
mothers has been published in the journals Anthropology and Education Quarterly and Childhood and
in Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation: Implications
for Policy and Practice (Columbia University Press, 2009). Her recent
research on young adults coming of age in Oakland, California is available
here. She is on the board of the African Library Project and Six Seconds, and
she volunteers as a Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in
foster care.
