About

I am a geography and geographic information systems (GIS) specialist with over a decade of combined professional experience in university research and teaching, GIS, statistical consulting, and data science roles.

I currently work as the GIS specialist for the Environmental Litigation Group (ELG) at Baron & Budd, a leading U.S. plaintiff’s law firm. I develop, curate, and manage ELG’s environmental data infrastructure and use it to investigate water pollution and corporate polluters across the U.S.

My education and interests span social science, computing, and statistics and I have published original research in journals of history, statistics, geography, public health, and open-source software. I have also served as a peer reviewer on an invited/ad-hoc basis for a variety of journals (Statistics in Medicine, Nature—Communications Medicine, Spatial Statistics, Transactions in GIS, International Journal of GIS, Scientific Reports, etc.).

I am a big fan of jazz and the guitar, labor unions, reading widely, open-source software, and outdoor excercise (mostly running and biking).

Education

Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Public Health &
Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Spatial statistics, cartography, cancer prevention

Doctor of Philosophy
Geospatial Information Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas
Spatial statistics, probability theory, cancer & health inequalities

Master of Arts
Human Geography
University of British Columbia
Political economy, history of the U.S. South

Bachelor of Arts
Human Geography
University of Minnesota
Economic geography, urban studies