About

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

I completed a PhD in Geospatial Information Sciences at UT Dallas and continued adacemic research as a postdoc at UT Southwestern Medical Center. My research interests span the social sciences, computing, and statistics and I have published my writing in journals of history, statistics, geography, and public health. I’ve also served as a peer reviewer on an ad-hoc/invited basis for a number of journals in geography/GIS, statistics, and public health (Spatial Statistics, Transactions in GIS, Statistics in Medicine, Nature—Communications Medicine, 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, GIS, cancer prevention

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

Master of Arts
Human Geography
University of British Columbia
Political economy

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