Curriculum vitae
Research
Themes and questions
- Increasing corporate domination in single-family housing
- Financialization in housing on long-term horizons
- Eviction, foreclosure, and housing loss geography
- Housing markets after natural or economic crisis
Writing
Who owns our homes? Unmasking the anonymous corporate owner and identifying market concentration
March 2024 in Cityscape
A short research paper about methods of connecting related anonymous corporate owners into one single owner and understanding concentration of ownership in the single-family housing market of Jacksonville, Florida. Read more about it
Education
Master's of Urban and Regional Planning
at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
January 2023 - April 2025 (anticipated)
Graduate certificate in Geographical Information Systems
at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
Relevant coursework
- Automation of GIS
- Learned custom tool-building in ArcGIS, ArcPy, ArcGIS Model Builder, and designing tool interfaces
- Produced a tool in ArcPy and a tool interface that performed a suitability analysis on areas for traffic safety improvements
- Urban Spatial Analysis
- Learned techniques such as spatial autocorrelation, hot-spot analysis, Local Moran’s I, Getis-Ord G*, geographically weighted regression, and Kriging analysis
- Produced a paper that analyzed social and environmental determinants of eviction risk in Alachua County
- Web Mapping and Visualization
- Learned MapBox and ArcGIS Online tools such as Instant Apps, Story Maps, Dashboards, FieldMaps and Survey123, ArcGIS API for Javascript
- Produced several mini-projects, including one to map racial impacts of development and mapping informal foodsheds in Gainesville
January 2022 - December 2022
Bachelors of Science in Ecology
at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Extracurricular academic experience
- Lab experience in restoration ecology on Western Washington Prairies
- Project management on lab seed germination
- Visualization using R
- Lab experience in developmental biology
- Managed hybridization staining assays on zebrafish embryos
- Fixed a long-standing issue causing failure of the hybridization protocol
- Techniques: Hybridization, PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA probe synthesis
Relevant coursework
- Introduction to GIS
- Presented a final project on food deserts and swamps in Seattle
- Basic operations and analysis on vectors
- Introduction to ArcGIS and QGIS
- Basic style and layout of maps
- Plant identification and classification
- Introduced to several plant taxa common in the Pacific Northwest
- Learned botanical keying and identification to family based on morphology
- Overview of morphological and phylogenetic classification
- Field ecology
- Learned and practiced data collection techniques:
- quadrat surveys for species cover
- behavioral observation techniques on mobile fauna
- literature review
- Learned and practiced data collection techniques:
- Biogeography
- Studied phylogenetic research and intersection with geography
- Examined genetic diversification events in several floral and faunal taxa
- Fish and Wildlife Toxicology
- Conducted toxicology experiments on burrowing shrimp in Willapa Bay to aid oyster aquaculture efforts
- Collected shrimp from study sites and extracted morphological material
- Analyzed data and presented using R and ggplot
- Learned basic toxicology concepts such as direct and indirect lethal effects, inherent sensitivity, and dose response curves
- Salmonid Behavior and Life History
- Watershed Ecology and Management
January 2017 - June 2019
Undeclared Bachelors
at Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
August 2015 - December 2016
Experiences
Graduate Research Assistant
at the UF Shimberg Center for Housing Studies
- conduct research in:
- corporate ownership of single-family homes
- mapping institutional housing landscapes
- how housing markets change after disaster, including the "disaster investor" phenomenon and disaster gentrification
- work with nonprofit and activist stakeholders in addressing housing policy concerns through data
- work with news agencies in creating and visualizing housing market analyses
- perform quantitative data analysis integrating many data sources including:
- United States Census
- parcel CAMA and sales
- geospatial
- proprietary sources
- use a combination of programming languages and techniques, including:
- R (general, spatial, temporal analysis, network analysis)
- tidyverse, including dplyr, ggplot, and purrr
- igraph
- data.table
- ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online (mapping and presentation)
- Javascript (web scraping)
- Python (scripting)
- SQL (for querying and managing databases)
- R (general, spatial, temporal analysis, network analysis)
- assist coworkers in research surrounding policy formulation using data
January 2023 and ongoing
Heirs Property Intern
- identify historical and current heir properties and their trajectories
- deduce major causes and outcomes with heir owners, including loss and corporate buying
- create a typology of corporate owners of single-family housing in Jacksonville's Urban Core
- lead presentations and facilitate discussions among officers and partner stakeholders
- ideate financial products to ensure access to funds for vulnerable home-rich money-poor homeowners
- work in R and SQL on parcel, sales, and web-scraped data
Founder & Coordinator
at the Gainesville Free Grocery Store
- Designed the second largest food pantry in Gainesville by number of users, and the only one offering delivery services
- Designed a delivery logistics to serve homebound families during the pandemic
- Host mobile pantries as outreach to housing-unstable neighborhoods
- Created and maintain a customer relations database
- Identified and built relationships with community partners such as Bread of the Mighty, Fresh Market, and Trader Joe’s
- Designed and manage fundraisers and marketing
- Designed and manage guest service relationships, including frequent check-ins about quality of service and waitlists
- Used GIS to identify high-risk geographical clusters in the Gainesville area to which to dedicate resources
- Provide food and non-food services to downtown houseless residents
- Designed a logistics for finding and delivering blankets to encampments across Gainesville
- Provide assistance for Spanish translations and interpretation
- Deliver food to over 350 people across more than 100 households
March 2020 - December 2023
Contract Data Analyst
Central Florida Fire Ecology
- analyze effects of fire seasonality on phenology and vigor of Central Florida flatwoods species
- implement dashboards in Shiny using R to create graphs and build tables
- collect data on phenology and morphology in Central Florida flatwoods
- identify and classify species based on morphology and taxonomy
City Plan Board
of the City of Gainesville
- conduct quasi-judicial hearings surrounding variance and special use permitting
- advise City of Gainesville Commission on legislative issues
- undertake and present personal research on housing issues
December 2022 and ongoing
Campaign Coordinator
at the Alachua County Labor Coalition
- Researched and began to develop an eviction diversion program
- Analyzed eviction data using Excel and QGIS
- Wrote two editorials for local newspapers on housing issues
- Managed communications with tenants experiencing discrimination
- Organized and fostered partnerships with similar grassroots organizers
- Created a grassroots outreach campaign to eviction-distressed neighborhoods
- Made public comment on affordable housing policy
September 2021 to December 2021
Pantry Operations Coordinator
at the University of Florida Hitchcock Field & Fork Pantry
- Managed a team of 6-10 student staff and 1-2 volunteers
- Designed, implemented, and revised COVID and COVID-reopening operations
- Managed a database migration between case management systems using Excel and Python scripting
- Created and facilitated a volunteer listserv and database
- Managed and edited a Wordpress website built on Cornerstone
- Analyzed and visualized data about guest base using Excel and R
- Spoke frequently with Spanish-monolingual guests
- Translated signage and guest-facing marketing materials to Spanish
- Fostered partnerships with government, community, and internal organizations and departments
- Successfully wrote a grant for Publix Charities
- Implemented basic budgets, purchasing, sourcing
January 2021 to September 2021
Data Entry Specialist
at the University of Florida Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
- Worked with EFNEP in UF IFAS Extension
- Digitized food survey data in English and Spanish
- Cleaned and validated data in WebNEERS
- Identified possible fraudulent program data
January 2020 to March 2020
Market Staff & Delivery Driver
at Martin Family Orchards (Seattle, WA)
- Independently managed high volume market stands in Seattle and regional farmers markets
- Managed finances and inventory reporting to supervisors
- Grew a Seattle neighborhood market’s profit by 10%
- Interfaced with customers of diverse nationalities and backgrounds
- Navigated customers through food assistance programs at farmers markets such as Double-Up Bucks, WIC Double-Up, and Food Prescription Programs
- Spoke conversational Spanish with monolingual guests
- Delivered produce to rural grocery stores around the Islands and Peninsula using a Mercedes-Benz sprinter
- Managed checks and invoices reporting for delivery runs
January 2019 to October 2019
Head Cook
at the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, Fairkid chapter
- Managed a team of 3-5 cooks
- Designed meals that respected dietary and cultural diversity within the coop membership
- Ensured compliance with state and local food safety guidelines
August 2016 to December 2016
Dining and Loose Ends Coordinator
at the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, Fairkid chapter
- Co-facilitated discussions in the coop on day-to-day updates and business, policy changes, ethical food sourcing, and accountability processes surrounding racism
- Managed the leadership team of the cooperative – including treasury, membership, and food safety roles and concerns
- Implemented a modified consensus process based loosely on Robert’s Rules of Order
- Coached on active listening and anti-racist equity
- Reported to central OSCA office about purchasing and safety updates
February 2016 to August 2016
Membership Coordinator
at the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, Fairkid chapter
- Managed changes to the cooperative roster, including additions and dismissals
- Managed attendance and discipline for work hours
- Oriented new members to cooperative policies and responsibilities
- Facilitated discussions about membership dismissal, including accountability processes and accommodations for mental and physical wellness
- Enforced and proposed updates to cooperative equity policies on labor requirements with accommodations for outside work and disability
August 2015 to December 2015
Other experiences
- Volunteer at Real Food Challenge UW
- Spread awareness about food system sustainability issues in campus purchasing through protest and social media.
- September 2018 to August 2019
- Volunteer at ASUW Student Food Cooperative
- Helped run a student bulk buying food store focused on sustainability
- January 2018 through June 2019
- Cashier at Whole Foods Market from September 2018 to March 2019
- Front of House Staff at UW Housing and Food Services from January 2018 to August 2018
Skills
- Technologies
- GIS (QGIS and ArcGIS)
- R
- Python
- Javascript
- SQL
- visualization tools
- Leaflet
- Shiny
- Datawrapper
- ArcGIS Online
- Microsoft Office
- Languages
- Spanish (conversational)
- Tagalog (conversational)
- French (read/write)
- Soft skills
- Facilitation and leadership
- Marketing and social media
- Team and project management
- Report writing
- Resource navigation
- Public comment