Veronica Herrera is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in urban politics, environmental policy, and social mobilization, and is the author of the award-winning book, Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera has served as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. Her articles have been published in numerous outlets such as Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, and World Development.