Promoted to lead after two years for academic excellence and leadership. Supported introductory and advanced GIS courses, mentored students across disciplines, coordinated lab assistants and community events, assisted faculty research, and produced custom GIS maps while managing the lab’s outreach and social media presence.

Co-taught a 9-week program delivering hands-on GIS training via Zoom, adapting curriculum in real time to meet students’ needs. Led ArcGIS Online mini-lessons, facilitated discussions on climate justice in small groups, graded coursework, held office hours, and mentored students through successful completion of their capstone projects.

Trained and supervised new employees, managed closing operations, and delivered consistent, high-quality food service in a fast-paced theater environment while providing attentive customer service and maintaining efficient inventory and kitchen workflows.

I studied sociology and geospatial analysis at Skidmore College, where I combined social science with technical GIS work through research, teaching, and leadership in the GIS Lab. My time at Skidmore emphasized interdisciplinary learning, mentorship, and using data-driven tools to engage with real-world social and environmental issues.

I studied sociology in Copenhagen, taking courses that deepened my understanding of social institutions and inequality while immersing myself in Danish culture through experience. Living and traveling throughout Europe strengthened my cross-cultural perspective and reinforced the value of learning through everyday social experience.

I began college pursuing a degree in Philosophy, yet as I dove deeper into the major, I was continually frustrated by its inability to impact the real world, here and now, not hundreds of years in the future. That frustration led me to Sociology, where I could apply theories about the social world’s inequity to the real world, helping and impacting the lives of those most affected. Simultaneously, I began working at the GIS Lab, and it felt like a new path had opened up for me. Combining two of my found passions in College, I could chart a unique path in Sociology, one marked by maps that visually depict the inequity I had now spent years studying and papers that describe and analyze it. I spent my last summer educating and mentoring high schoolers on GIS skills and climate justice issues, showing them how the reasons why certain groups are disproportionately affected by climate justice issues and how they can be tackled using GIS. In my final year, I’ve been TAing for the Intro to GIS class, continuing to study Sociology, mentoring non-GIS students on how to use it for their sociology work, and plan to present some of my work at the ESS Conference in March.