{"id":21840,"date":"2025-05-05T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=21840"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:15:17","slug":"molly-richard","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/molly-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Urban H Interests: Housing, Health<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Molly Richard received their PhD in 2023 from Vanderbilt University, in the Community Research and Action department. Dr. Richard\u2019s research aims to inform strategies to prevent and end homelessness. Their current projects focus on how structural inequality contributes to homelessness, and what local and national actors can (and should) do about it. They have a decade of community-engaged research experience and expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods. Their doctoral research was funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and has been enhanced by partnerships with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Racial Equity Partners, and other policymakers, researchers, advocates, and people experiencing homelessness across the U.S. Dr. Richard joined the Center for Innovation in Social Science in Fall 2023 as an inaugural CISS postdoctoral fellow, working with\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/thomas-byrne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Thomas Byrne<\/a><span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/profile\/loretta-lees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Loretta Lees<\/a><span>. Their research examines strategies to prevent and end homelessness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For more information on Dr. Richard\u2019s research and publications, visit their\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/molly-richard-78147a45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webpage<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21370,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21841,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21840\/revisions\/21841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}