Holona Ochs is an associate professor in Lehigh’s Political Science Department. Her expertise is in public administration and social entrepreneurship. Her current research focuses on universal basic income, finding that basic income schemes that are not universal and unconditional are likely to reproduce race-gendered patterns of oppression, and democratic policing as she examines lethal force, patterns of bias, and perspectives on policing. Professor Ochs has written a book about welfare reform and its impact on those living in poverty called Privatizing the Polity and a book called Gratuity: A Contextual Understanding of Tipping Norms from the Perspective of Tipped Employees.
