Doctoral dissertation · 2026
Constellations of Collective Care & Gendered Exploitation: Mutual Aid in Chicago’s New Arrival Crisis
An original qualitative study of Chicago’s 2022 to 2024 new-arrival crisis, built on 35 semi-structured interviews with mutual-aid organizers, city officials, and alderpersons. It examines how race, gender, labor, and urban governance shape who ends up responsible for care when formal systems leave a gap, and what that responsibility costs the people who take it on.
- Scarborough, W., Brito, C., Lehmann, A., Arenas, I., & Lewis, A. (2026). Research note: Texas’s Operation Lone Star migrant busing program increased Hispanic homelessness in destination cities. Demography, 63(1), 15–28.
- Brito, C. (2025). The welcoming city? Chicago & the new arrival crisis. In Twenty-First Century Chicago (Rev. 2nd ed.). Cognella Academic Publishing.
- Brito, C. (2023, May 30). Commentary: Johnson must engage and provide funding for youth-led initiatives. Crain’s Chicago Business.
- Brito, C. (2022). Organizing in Little Village. In Never Normal Again.
- Decoteau, C. L., Garrett, C. L., Brito, C., Basaldua, F., & Arenas, I. (2021). Deadly disparities in the days of COVID-19: How public policy fails Black & Latinx Chicagoans (State of Racial Justice Policy Report). UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.
- Torres, M. de los A., Brito, C., Herrera, O., & Obregón, E. (Eds.). (2018). Mapping new directions in Latino research. Inter-University Program for Latino Research.
Workshops
& talleres.
Built for movement spaces, schools, and organizations. Each runs as a single session or an ongoing series, in English or Spanish.
The Praxis of Critical Environmental Justice
How to Form a Mutual Aid Network in Your Community
Abolition: Flexing Your Radical Imagination
Latinx History 101
Talleres de Justicia RacialEspañol
Racial Justice & Allyship
Identity, Intersectionality & Equity
Speaking