PhD in Geography
University of British Columbia   • Four Year Fellowship
  • President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award


Master of Arts in Geography
University of British Columbia   • Emily Acheson Scholarship
  • Larry Bell Urban Research Award
  • Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
  • Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Award
  • Graduate Student Travel Award
    MA Thesis: Making Space for Deep Mapping: Rendering theory as Praxis


Bachelor of Science in Geography (Honors);
Certificate in Geographic Information Science & Technology
University of Massachusetts Amherst   • John and Abigail Adams Scholarship
  • Outstanding Graduating Senior in Geography
  • Member of the Commonwealth Honors College
    Honors Thesis - Mapping the Pandemic: A Critical and Creative Cartography

Graduate Academic Assistant: Geospatial Information and Technology
Koerner Library Research Commons, UBC • Develop and facilitate workshops on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including Map production with QGIS, Spatial Network Analysis, and Designing web maps with Mapbox • Build, update, and maintain accompanying workshop websites using git and Github • Provide 1:1 and group consultations to UBC faculty and students alike Co-coordinator: Teaching Assistant Training
Department of Geography, UBC • Organize and facilitate training workshop for incoming Teaching Assistants • Develop curriculum in response to collected feedback • Manage a $6,500 annual budget and complete yearly evaluation and budget reconciliation • Write biennial grant funding application based on needs assessments Projects Coordinator: UBC Disabled Graduate Student Association
Department of Geography, UBC • Assess community interests and match members with projects and roles • Facilitate initial strategizing amongst groups, structuring the development of timeline and communication norms • Support ongoing work by providing guidance and encouragement during monthly meetings Teaching Assistant: Cartography
Department of Geography, UBC • Facilitate 3 weekly lab sessions by introducing assignments, demonstrating use of software, and troubleshooting student workflows • Design rubrics for map critique and evaluation, hold office hours,
and mark assignments for 60 students weekly Teaching Assistant: Intro to Geographic Information Systems
Department of Geosciences, UMass Amherst • Assist students during technical labs by anticipating sources of error,
troubleshooting student workflows, and communicating information in multiple ways Yoga Teacher: 200 hour Kripalu Vinyasa Certified From 2018-2020 I taught 2 classes weekly at The University of Massachusetts' Campus Recreation Center as well as led a professional development workshop for Group Fitness staff after peer evaluating classes. In the summer of 2019 I taught Gentle Vinyasa Yoga at Gold's Gym in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. During 2020-2021 Quarantine I adapted to virtual platforms, teaching live classes on Zoom and filming/editing independent offerings on YouTube Resident Assistant: Patterson Hall
UMass Amherst • Organize and facilitate floor meetings and special events to promote community amongst students, effectively strategizing with coworkers and superiors to mediate conflict and uphold Code of Conduct
• Hold responsibility for 750 students during bi-monthly night shifts, responding to incidents and sensitive disclosures with professionalism and protocol Viola Tutor
• Teach weekly hour long lessons to middle school violists
Co-Captain: Lexington High School Envirothon Team • Prepare team for annual competitions by working with peers and team coach to research and teach of Massachusetts' regional aquatics, wildlife, forestry, and soils
• Awarded State Championship in 2017 and placed 15th at National Competition in Maryland, USA Teaching Assistant: Circus Arts • Assist youth aerial acrobatic classes at Gravity Alternative Movement (FKA Aerial Aircraft Arts)
• Clown for children and teach juggling and unicycling with Diamond Family Circus

see Mapping for graphic portfolio

Seventeen maps published in Steven Harrell's (2023) An Ecological History of Modern China. Created 2 maps of the Pearl River Delta and redistricting in Guangzhou, China, for Amy Zhang's forthcoming Circular Ecologies. Created static reference map and interactive web-map of Vancouver Island for UBC Disaster Resilience Research Network Designed and executed double-sided Conference map for 2023 annual meeting of the Western Association of Map Librarians Created aerial satellite imagery map of conservation area for colleague's doctoral presentation

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Mapping the Pandemic: A Critical and Creative Cartography
Undergraduate Honors Thesis In this semester long thesis, I analyzed spatial media literacy through critical engagement with maps of COVID-19 and explored creative cartographies and counter mapping practices as a way to make sense of concurrent crises. My final output was an ArcGIS Hub site with text and multimedia, including the 2 storymaps below on Isolation Psychogeography and Critical Cartography.




Deep Mapping Theory as Praxis
Master's Thesis in Geography See negative-spaces.github.io

Gleaning urban shorelines: curbsides as sites of leaky disposal • Presentation for co-composed panel on Everyday Metabolisms for Leakage, the 2024 Inaugural Conference of STSing

Diffractive mapping spatial analysis: how data comes to matter in empirical formations (invited)
Alleyway wastelands: writing smellworlds of urban excrement (invited)
A game we play on our phones: 'distributed sensorium' and infrastructural surrounds (co-authored)(invited)
• Society for Social Studies of Science (4s) 2023 Conference

Making Space for Deep Mapping: Theory as Praxis
• American Association of Geographers 2023 Conference, Experimental Digital Mapping panel • Invited by panel to elaborate conference paper into full academic article, currently undergoing peer review for publication in Cartographic Perspectives Guest Lectures: Critical & Creative Cartography and Mapping Practices
• Cartography, University of British Columbia, April & November 2022
• Introduction to Human Geography, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2021

I am a fine artist with eighteen years experience painting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, and crafting broadly. From 2013 to 2019, I sold handmade greeting cards, earrings, bookmarks, and frypan cozies at the annual Common Ground Country Fair in Maine. Recently, I began printing a collection of transsexual erotica paintings on cards, as well as iron-on transfers with which I've made t-shirts and custom tote bags. Next year I intend to table my work in Vancouver, selling at local art markets because I especially enjoy in-person exchanges.

I am a classically trained violist with fifteen years experience learning and playing folk music by ear. I have participated in numerous orchestras including Lexington High Repertoire, Lexington High Symphony, Lexington High Chamber, UMass Symphony, Hilltop Circus Band, and Lexington Pit Orchestra. As member of Lexington High's acclaimed Chamber Orchestra I premiered Trinity, an experimental piece commissioned for us, at Boston’s Jordan Hall. I also participated in the 2017 Northeastern Junior Districts Orchestra where I was first stand. I have taught viola to middle schoolers and have played solo Christmas concerts at my local nursing home. I recently transposed my skills fiddling on the viola to the violin and mandolin so that I can jam with my friends.

• Computational Thinking for Creative Problem Solving
• Workshop Design and Instruction
• Professional Development Coordination
• Arts & Crafts
• Teaching, both remote and in-person

• QGIS
• Inkscape
• ArcGIS Desktop, Pro, Storymaps, Survey123
• Adobe Illustrator
• Git and Github
• HTML, webpage design (I made this site and that of my thesis, learning through doing)
• Leaflet
• SQL for Data Querying
• Video Editing with iMovie