Swedish Newspaper Quotes Professor Pruitt in Story on Fresno County City

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke to the nationwide Swedish newspaper Expressen for a story (English translation here) about the Fresno County city of  Mendota.

Expressen presented a fuller picture of Mendota than USA Today did in 2019, when – using an index from the website 24/7 Wall St. – it deemed Mendota the worst place to live in the United States.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.