Kelly Lytle Hernández

Kelly is a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and is the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Lytle Hernández is the author of award-winning books, including: Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol; City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles; and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. Lytle Hernández also leads the Million Dollar Hoods research initiative, which maps the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2019, Professor Lytle Hernández is also a member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prizes Board.