SAMYU COMANDUR

Academic Articles

"Teaching Strategic Thinking: A Practical Approach to Training Students for Community Organizing" for Educating for Multiracial Democracy, edited by Liza Taylor, Kathleen Cole, Misbah Hyder, Brian Lovato, Marcos Scauso, and Kaye Usry (forthcoming)
“Abortion Access in the United States” for The Sage International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender with Ana Luisa Oaxaca Carrasco (September 2025)
“Undocumented Workers” for The Sage International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender with Ana Luisa Oaxaca Carrasco (September 2025)
“Views on Men Behaving Badly: Male Public Opinion and the 2021 Capitol Insurrection” for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with Crystal Robertson, Alexandria Davis, Joyce Nguy, Claudia Alegre, and Lorrie Frasure (March 2025)

Research Reports

"Unhoused Community Experiences with LA Fires: A Health Survey" for the Mutual Aid Research Collective in partnership with Aetna Street Solidarity, All Power Free Clinic, Grow Together Glendale, Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid, Pasadena for All, Poor Magazine, and The Sidewalk Project (June 2026)
“LA Wildfires: Impacts on Altadena’s Black Community” for the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies with Paul Ong, Chhandara Pech, Lorrie Frasure, Eric Lee, and Silvia R. González (January 2025)

Essays

“Death Dealers Lock Arms on the Westside” for Street Views, a Los Angeles street-based newspaper made with, by, and for unhoused communities and organizers (June 2024)
“A Sandwich, A Sheet Pan, and a Coffee Pot: Reflections from the UC Strike” for the Let This Radicalize You: Reflections from New Activists and Organizers zine, featured at the Haymarket Books virtual launch for Let This Radicalize You (May 2023)