Education

• M.A. in Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2018 (expected)

• B.A. in Geography (with Distinction), University of California, Berkeley, 2016
  • Awards: Dean’s Honors 2012 and Spring 2015, Berkeley Undergraduate Scholarship 2014-2015
  • Honors Thesis: Bay Area Bike Share: A Geospatial Investigation
• University of Queensland, Australia, Fall 2014
  • Semester abroad through U.C.E.A.P., Course Work: GIS for Planning, which culminated in a Land Use Allocation project

Skills

• Python- Pandas, Rasterio, scikit-learn, matplotlib, GeoPandas, PySAL
• R- Tidyr, ggplot2, RStan
• SQL
• Github
• ArcGIS, QGIS, Envi, Carto

Professional Experience

• Summer 2017: Graduate Research Assistant, Earth Lab at University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Earth Lab at University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Aided with software development of open-source modeling framework for geo-spatial big data
  • Wrote code in Python to facilitate parallelized, multi-scale, spatially varying analysis
  • Developed example Jupyter notebook of package functionality
  • Supervisor: Professor Carson Farmer
• Fall 2016, Spring 2017: Teaching Assistant
  • Statistics for Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Teaches two 2 hour weekly labs that cover programming and statistical concepts in Rstudio
  • Help students engage with material, grade and assist with lecture/ lab content creation
  • Supervisor: Professor Carson Farmer, Professor Lora Koeing
• Spring 2016: Undergraduate Researcher
  • Kelly Research & Outreach Lab, Berkeley, CA
  • Data collection and classification for Sustainability and Safety in Pacific West National Parks Project
  • Yosemite National Park trail classification and creation of prison geodatabase using ArcGIS
• 2015- 2016: Sponsorship Chair
  • U.C. Berkeley Triathlon Team
  • Develop and maintain relationships with major companies for team deals for 120+ member team
• 2014 - 2015: Writer
  • Daily Californian
  • Created 2 articles weekly for Eating Berkeley and Campus Life of the Daily Clog (blog) section
• Fall 2014: Student Assistant
  • Gathered various video clips to illustrate concepts for graduate ischool course “Research Design and Applications for Data and Analysis”
• Summer 2013-2014: Beach Lifeguard
  • Performed under pressure while providing primary safety supervision
  • Educated hundreds of beach patrons daily while enforcing various city codes pertinent to the beach

Service

• Fall 2017: Reviewer
  • Transportation Research Review Board
  • Peer Reviewed 2 papers within the Bicycle Transportation subgroup
• Spring 2016: Volunteer Essay Evaluator
  • U.C.E.A.P and Cal Alumni Association
  • Evaluated and score 20 student essays for scholarships
• 2012 - Fall 2014: Volunteer Writing Tutor
  • Writer Coach Connection, Berkeley, CA
  • Engaged middle school students in a one-on-one setting to strengthen their writing skills

Activities

• 2012 - 2016 Triathlete, U.C. Berkeley Triathlon Team
  • 16+ hours a week of practice