Leslie Kern is the author of Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make Work Better for Others, and Transform the University (Between the Lines), Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies and Feminist City: A Field Guide (Between the Lines/Verso Books), as well as Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship (UBC Press, 2010). She is an associate professor of geography and environment and women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. Kern's research has earned a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, a National Housing Studies Achievement Award, and several national multi-year grants. She is also an award-winning teacher. Kern's writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vox, Bloomberg CityLab, and Refinery29. Kern has a Substack newsletter called Perfectly Cromulent. She is also an academic career coach, helping academics find meaning and joy in their work.