Lead 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

• Lead teams of designers, cartographers, and technologists with project planning and management

• Collaborate on internal cartographic tooling projects

Blog posts

Read about my work on Stamen‘s blog

presentations

• At NACIS

  • 2025

    • Navigating cartographic design for clients

    • Stamen’s Dark Materials

  • 2024

    • Mapping the Future of Food in Climate Change With VACS Earth Genome

    • Taking UCSF’s Health Atlas National

    • Telling the Story of Changing Populations With Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas

  • 2023

    • 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

  • 2022

    • Figmasset: A Missing Map Tool

• State of the Map US

  • Maintaining a Family of Related Map Styles

• Ad hoc

  • Data visualization and mapping for a scientific audience with USGS Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center’s Summer Symposium

Director-at-Large

North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)
October 2025 - present

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

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

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, 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

Master of Science in Geography

Certificate in Geographic Information Systems

The George Washington University, Washington, DC
May 2017
GPA: 3.90

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Environmental Studies

Minor in Sustainability
Certificate in French

The George Washington University, Washington, DC
May 2015
GPA: 3.66