Lillian Leung
GradFUTURES Social Impact Fellow, Future of Land and Housing
Lillian Leung is a Princeton GradFUTURES Social Impact Fellowship with New America's Future of Land and Housing Program for the spring 2026 semester. Leung is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University. She is a mixed-methods scholar whose research interests broadly include urban sociology, housing, immigration, poverty and inequality, and social policy. Her work draws on large administrative datasets, surveys, and in-depth interviews to understand how the housing market produces and perpetuates social inequality.
Prior to graduate school, she helped build the first ever dataset of evictions in America with the Eviction Lab. She currently also serves as the East Asian Languages team lead at Respond Crisis Translation. Leung holds a B.S. in Business from NYU’s Stern School of Business and a M.A. from Princeton University.