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= Zaire Dinzey-Flores = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zaire Dinzey-Flores is an associate professor of Sociology and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, who predominately teaches courses on urbanism, Caribbean societies and development, race and ethnicity, and research methods. She is a researcher and writer, including her book "Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City”, as well as features in the Latin American Research Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Urban History.

Background and Education
Dinzey-Flores was born in the Caribbean, specifically Puerto Rico, which is the subject of a lot of her work. She resided there for 47 years with her Dominican immigrant parents, although she did travel between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic frequently between 1970s and 1980s. Even though, her early family and life is unknown, but she is extremely vocal about what her childhood experience was like as an Afro-Latina.

For college, Dinzey-Flores attended Harvard University to obtain a Bachelor of the Arts in Sociology, which she achieved in 1995 Cum Laude. Following college, she gained her Masters of the Arts in Sociology at Stanford University in 1997, her Masters in Urban Planner in 2003 and her PhD in Public Policy in 2005 at University of Michigan.

Career
Zaire Dinzey-Flores served as a Homelessness Prevention Advocate for a year between 1995 and 1996. She then moved to the Vera Institute of Justice as an Appearance Assistance Officer for a year between 1998 and 1999. Eventually, in 2001, she moved to the Inter-American Development Bank as a Research Intern for two months, where she conducted research on safety net programs in the Caribbean. She then took a similar job in 2002 at the World Bank. In 2003, Dinzey-Flores returned to the Vera Institute of Justice. For two years, she served as a researcher, specifically conducting a homelessness survey in New York City. Then, in 2005, Dinzey-Flores served as a postdoctoral fellow of race, crime and justice. Finally, Zaire Dinzey-Flores moved to Rutgers in August of 2007 as an Assistant Professor, eventually becoming an Associate Professor in July 2013, which is a position she has maintained since.

She has experience as a consultant in qualitative and quantitative methods, applied research, policy analysis, and program evaluation.

As of 2022, Zaire Dinzey-Flores is working on two projects. The first is a mixed-method study of "how race is articulated in residential real estate practices in demographically changing neighborhoods in Brooklyn, NY". And the second looks at the "transatlantic circulation of housing planning and design ideals in the middle of the 20th Century" (information gathered v.i.a Zaire Dinzey-Flores' Rutgers Core Faculty page).

Personal Life
Not much is known about Dinzey-Flores' personal life, but she does currently reside in Brooklyn, New York and is confirmed to be the mother to an unknown amount of children. She also has discussed being married, however, her spouse is unknown.