About ME
Power in Pictures
Pictures are worth a thousand words, but maps are worth a thousand numbers too.
I started my educational journey as a communications major at Shenandoah University focusing on photojournalism that instilled a lifetime of love for visual media. Photographs can be prose and poetry, all-encompassing and succinct. However, from a young age I also always had a love for science. This paired with a fascination with the TV show “Frasier” brought me to the world of Psychology. Nearing the end of my undergraduate degree, I took a class in cultural anthropology and was instantly enamored.
My love for visual media and the academic world grew independently of one another until I stumbled across geography and the wider world of data science, a place where pictures, culture theory, and visual storytelling intersect to create a realm as rich in creativity as research.
I’m in the process of obtaining a master’s of geography at Arizona State University with the intention of pursuing a career at the intersection of all the passions which’ve led me here, using GIS and data visualization to tell important stories empowering us to face the future informed and together.