About

I currently reside in beautiful Ithaca, New York, where I am working towards a Master in City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. My main interests are geospatial analysis and visualization, transportation engineering, and social justice mapping. In autumn 2012, I look forward to returning to the Boston metropolitan area for full-time work. If interested, click this link to view/print my resume and sample works from 2011.

Inspirations

  • The work of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, which uses GIS analysis and mapping to advocate for social justice. Its maps have influenced a federal jury to award poor residents excluded from public water services almost $11 million in damages.
  • Columbia University’s Million Dollar Blocks project, which maps neighborhood blocks according to the estimated cost of imprisoned residents. If instead of paying the state to imprison these blocks, what if that money went toward neighborhood improvements?

Conference attendance

Background

I left my hometown of New York City to spend my college years in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Between 2006 and 2010, I studied nonfiction writing,building technology, structural design, and urban studies and planning. My part-time job involved writing about MIT for prospective students and other interested readers.  Outside of the Internet, the mainstream press features my name in three articles. In order of publication from earliest to most recent:

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