Jeff Coyne

Housing policy, tenant organizing, political economy of overdose, addiction & drugs, class struggle, therapeutic culture

Jeff Coyne is a graduate student of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he is pursuing a degree in Community Engaged Research & Practice. His current research focuses on the political economy of the overdose crisis, grassroots tenant organizing, US housing policy, and the ways in which contemporary narratives about addiction are internalized by drug users. He previously worked for the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance and Department of Public Health in Seattle, and currently works as a tenant organizer & in a leadership role at the nation organization Changing the Narrative.