Setha Low is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Recent books include Spatializing Culture (2017), Anthropology and the City (2019), Spaces of Security (with M. Maguire) (2019), Why Public Space Matters (2023), and Trapped (with M. Maguire) (2024) and Beach Politics (2025). She lectures internationally on public space, social justice and diversity in partnership with the UN Habitat Global Public Space Programme.