I collaborated with The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Tenants Together on an interactive mapping + narrative project about rent control and just cause protections in California. The project featured three maps:
I created Snap Raster Cartography to produce and share maps focused on people's spatial knowledge of a place. Viewers are challenged to use their familiarity with geographic features to orient themselves and navigate the map.
I collaborated with Immigration Legal Resource Center (ILRC) to contribute maps to their 2017 and 2018 reports on county policies pertaining to Immigration Enforcement across the country.
The Audubon South Carolina is interested in identifying land most conducive to future marsh migration for conservation purposes, and in 2015 contracted me to map these areas. The project overlaid four inputs to identify areas of highest and lowest likelihood of future marsh. These layers included landcover based on sea level rise, change in landcover using IPCC scenario predictions, soil data, and hardened shoreline features. The results helped inform the Audubon's land acquisition efforts.
The Richmond Neighborhood Center (formerly Richmond District Neighborhood Center (RDNC)) commissioned me to make a commemorative map that was given to guests of their 2018 fundraising Gala. The map highlighted the sponsors of the event as staple local businesses that help define the Richmond district.
I made this map for my friend's dad who leads an annual kayaking trip down the Allagash. The map's focus in on the river so that those familiar with it can recognize locations based on its bends and forks, I also included the surrounding elevation (topography) for context and color. The topography is visualized using a digital elevation model (DEM) from the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems. I classified and colored the DEM and then generated a hillshade to overlay, helping distinguish the valleys and ridges of the terrain.
This map uses a digital elevation model (DEM) from the City of San Francisco to visualize the highest point above sea level on each building in the city. This allows viewers to recognize skyscrapers in downtown as well as hills and valleys across San Francisco. I used the DEM to assign values to the buildings using the maximum z value within the building footprint's extent. I then assigned a range of colors to these values to indicate the elevation, the highest point on the spectrum representing 1776 feet at Sutro Tower, and the lower point at 8 feet, in Hunters Point.
I wanted to map the coastline of Cape Cod because of its unique shape that defines Massachusetts. This map illustrates the Atlantic Ocean using various color spectrums to show water depth, or bathymetry. This allows viewers to use the water to identify coastal features along Cape Cod, Nantucket, the Vineyard, and Boston Harbor.
This is a screen print of the streets of San Francisco, done using a color gradient, or split fountain, printing technique. I am particularly drawn to the streets because their shape helps convey the hills, windy streets indicate steep areas, while straight lines are typically flat areas.
This map was created for Mission Local to make current restaurant inspection scores more accessible to residents (see this article on the lack of transparency in restaurant scores in SF).
This map was made for San Diego Coastkeeper to visualize watersheds in the San Diego region to help inform locals of the watershed in which they work and live in order to encourage protection of water bodies.
A multiyear collaboration with a Bay Area community land trust, Richmond LAND, to develop a system for locating, transforming, and visualizing spatial data about the housing landscape in Richmond, CA.
Richmond LAND works to help keep community members in place by advancing anti-displacement policy at the city level and by moving properties into the community land trust to be controlled by the community and held as permanently affordable housing for Richmond residents.This family history project is an exploration of my father's upbringing in the Panama Canal Zone in the context of political history of the time. It interrogates the US presence in Panama as a colonial occupation masked as an economic and technological innovation for global progress.
This project analyzes the impact on San Francisco's housing market of California's Proposition 13, a 1978 law that freezes property tax increase to 2% to protect homeowners from the impacts of rapidly increasing home values on their property taxes.
Using python the project explores assessed value (County of SF) and market value (zillow) by neighborhood to identify how much of a tax subsidy prop 13 provides home owners and how disproportionately this is distributed across the city.
This project explores the history of Peoples Park as a contested "commons" to contextualize the current redevelopment plans by the University of California. I informed this work by interviewing people involved in the redevelopment plans for the Park, including university planners, university social workers, and landscape architects.
My graduate school capstone project shares my findings from working with a local Community Land Trust (CLT) to use data to advance their work and from interviews with 20+ other practitioners utilizing data for housing justice work.
I conducted data analysis for the Center for Community Innovation to study accessory dwelling units (ADUs) production across the state and identify any city programs that have successfully promoted the development of affordable ADUs.
In my final two years of working in Redwood City I conducted the data analysis elements of the City Manager's Office's audit of the city' police department's data to see if it revealed any information about the department that the city should respond to.
This is my portfolio of work samples from my GIS career, cartography work, and graduate school studies in city planning
I explored local policies for opportunity to purchase acts, commonly called TOPA or COPA. TOPA offers an opportunity for tenants to purchase a building before it goes to the private market, and COPA works similarly giving first right to purchase to community non-profits.
I reviewed existing data and reports about Oakland's controversial Encampment Management Plan, adopted in October 2020 as a response to the crisis of people living unhoused in Oakland.