Co-authored by LMIS Director Jaclyn Kelly, and former LMISer, now Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Florida International University, Dr. Anindya Kundu, “Striving Despite Disruption: Young People’s Occupational Identity and Economic Opportunity during COVID-19,” is a chapter in the edited volume Regional Economic Systems after COVID-19. The work introduces findings and implications of a mixed-methods study that followed CUNY students preparing to join the labor market during COVID-19.