Satya Lendrum, Ph.D. teaches sociology and gender studies. She has a range of teaching experiences including teaching at large public universities, small faith-based liberal arts colleges and currently at community colleges. She is a qualitative researcher, specializing in ethnographic methods, and primarily studies urban life, informal economic strategies, and urban spaces. When she isn't teaching, she is active in the community, teaching and hosting meditation and ecstatic dance events, or zipping around the city on her bicycle.