experience

Senior Technical Cartographer + Designer

Stamen
october 2021 - present

• Design and build vector map styles to produce beautiful, performant, and dynamic basemaps for clients

• Create compelling and useful software interfaces, data visualizations, and maps for client products

• Collaborate on internal cartographic tooling projects

Blog posts

• Pulling back the curtain on economic disparity with the Distressed Communities Index

• Stamen x Stadia series: Terrain behind the scenes

• Stamen x Stadia series: harnessing modern vector cartography

• Visualizing Japanese American confinement with Densho

• Dreamy, aspirational cartography with Spherical

• Visualizing critical disaster data with ReadyMapper

• Weaving together plants and people: developing a touchscreen installation for the Exploratorium

• How we use collaborative design software to collaborate on more than just design

• Down In the Sewers Tracking Viruses with WastewaterSCAN

• Visualize a cross section of your map with Chartographer

Conference presentations

• Capturing the Essence of Los Angeles with Cartography

• Sites of Shame: Telling the Stories of Interned Japanese Americans Through Maps

• Cartography Pro-Tips: Creating Basemaps for Amazon Location Services

• Figmasset: A Missing Map Tool

National Geographic Explorer 

Early Career Grants Program, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC 
May 2019 - Summer 2022

Project: Exploring Our Changing National Parks 

• Use the power of cartography and a different perspective to tell the story of climate change and its impacts to a skeptical audience 

• Complete fieldwork in support of research from summer 2019 - spring 2021

• Design layers, maps, graphics, and narrative for publication in mid 2021

Related:

• featured in Adobe x National Geographic’s #GenGeo Storytelling for Impact: Graphics courses

• featured in Stories Are As Old As Humanity—And May Be The Key To Saving It in Forbes

Senior Map Designer

Mapbox, Washington, DC
November 2019 - October 2021

• Built innovative map design tools for Mapbox users

• Designed and maintained Mapbox core and custom map styles

• Prototyped, researched, and implemented innovative visualization techniques for custom data

Blog posts

• Color blindness simulator in Studio

• Quickly create custom marker and heatmap styles in Mapbox Studio

• Data visualization components with full 3D integration in Mapbox Studio

• Studio’s new style component designed especially for data visualization

• Detailed indoor maps of Japan

• 7 best practices for mapping a pandemic

• Customize the language of your map labels in Studio

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Designing (Mapbox) maps with accessibility in mind

• Aiding or Abetting? Encouraging Informed Mapping During a Global Pandemic

Cartographer Fellow

Office of Spatial Analysis and Visualization, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
US Department of Transportation via Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

March 2018 - November 2019

• Designed and created large-scale National Transportation Atlas for print publication

• Conceptualized, planned, and created print wall map on national transportation infrastructure

• Visualized national transportation spatial datasets in thematic maps for Congressional reports

• Designed map graphics, logos, and infographics for USDOT publications and outreach

• Developed national-level spatial datasets for the National Transportation Atlas Database

• Created interactive web mapping applications with real-time data

Research Associate & Special Projects Coordinator

American Association of Geographers (AAG)
Washington, DC

September 2015 – DECEMBER 2017

• Compiled, analyzed, and visualized disciplinary and internal datasets

• Wrote copy and developed graphics for outreach campaigns

• Developed interactive web map to help students discover geography degrees in the Americas

• Aggregated and analyzed data to support geography education research

• Evaluated and awarded grants to senior and junior geographers

• Facilitated communication with geography departments both domestically and abroad in order to promote geography education

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University Writing Program & Department of Geography,
The George Washington University
Washington, DC

August 2015 – May 2017

• Graded and evaluated quality of assignments for writing-intensive Geography Senior Seminar and Urban Sustainability, and Cultural Geography courses

• Designed and implemented assignments, peer review sessions, and discussion sections for 20-25 undergraduate students per semester

• Facilitated two weekly 25-student discussions in introductory Human Geography course

• Assessed student understanding of geography theory and growth within the course

Urban Sustainability Research Assistant

Department of Geography,
The George Washington University
Washington, DC

January 2015 – May 2016

• Conducted analytical research on the prevalence of environmental justice and economic issues in sustainability plans for 20 U.S. cities

• Collaborated within an eight-person research team to identify patterns and overarching trends across subject areas

• Developed research methods and protocol for specific field of study

Intern

The Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Washington, DC

January 2014 – May 2015

• Contributed to and collaborated on SERVIR and GCE, two federally funded grant projects concerning geospatial technology education for students in developing regions

• Researched and updated the Developing Regions Events and Opportunities pages on the AAG website

• Supported staff and facilitated the 2014 and 2015 AAG Annual Meetings

• Participated in logistical and administrative management of AAG events and special projects

• Designed and developed published materials, including event itineraries, book covers, and layouts