The interest in urban politics and class composition has accompanied Leon Rosa Reichle through their academic and non-academic work. During their studies in sociology, politics and philosophy in Leipzig, Grenoble, and Jena, and during their PhD at the Centre for Urban Research in Austerity in Leicester and Berkeley Geography, Leon has met and worked with a range of urban and feminist groups, movements and projects. In their recent work, Leon studied local state responses to racism, trying to figure out how to better challenge institutionalized marginalization. They have published articles on social reproduction, solidarity initiatives, authoritarianism and what it means for organizing, ethnographic research and its challenges, uneven development, institutional racism and different other aspects of state theory.