MY PATH
I began my engagement with climate change issues in 2014, working with grassroots organizations like Earthship Philadelphia and the Maryland Harvest Collective to provide radical green alternatives in housing and agriculture.
Since then I've been studying climate change academically in an effort to understand the larger systems at play that constrain local decision-making. I've gained a broad disciplinary background in forestry, climate science, resource economics, and environmental history.
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It was at Columbia University that I was first exposed to geospatial data, and its unique capacity to inform rigorous investigations of humanity's interactions with earth systems. GIS and remote sensing have allowed me to work on questions of climate in practical and concrete ways, and I have enormous faith in their potential as tools of scientific democratization and collective planning.
I currently work at Cloud to Street, a public benefit company that is tackling the challenge of flood response and resiliency planning through improved analytics on satellite data. Our mission at C2S resonates with my own. It is to:
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"Enable all communities to prepare and respond to flooding, and access insurance, by reducing the barriers to the necessary scientific information"