Toolkit
GIS & Analysis
- QGIS
- ArcGIS Pro
- Google Earth Engine
- GDAL & OGR
- R
Design
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Procreate
- Blender
Code
- Svelte
- D3
- MapLibre & Protomaps
- Mapbox
- Claude Code
Experience
Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphics Reporter
Works with reporters, photographers and designers to advance graphics-and-data-driven visual storytelling at Minnesota’s largest news organization.
The Wall Street Journal
Graphics Intern
Designed 42 maps on deadline in collaboration with reporters and editors around the world, ranging from single-day turns to month-long projects.
UW Cartography Lab
Interim Production Manager
Managed the design studio’s eight student employees and guided production of over 40 cartographic projects.
UW Cartography Lab
Cartographer & Data Viz Designer
Conceptualized, researched and designed four interactive and 10 print maps for professional clients such as The Nature Conservancy and Wisconsin Sea Grant.
Arizona Public Media
Radio and Web Reporter
Created radio stories and graphics covering the economy, transportation, environmental issues and local politics.
Carnegie-Knight News21
Investigative Reporter Fellow
Collaborated with a 36-reporter team and reported in three states on a Robert F. Kennedy Award-winning national investigation into natural disaster response.
Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison
M.S. in Cartography and GIS
Interviewed 17 news cartographers for my master’s thesis exploring the ethics of cartographic journalism.
Taught two semesters as a graduate teaching assistant, instructing lab sections of around 20 students in cartographic design and GIS methods.
University of Minnesota
B.A. in Journalism
President of the Society of Professional Journalists UMN chapter. Reported for the Minnesota Daily student newspaper.
Reporting internships with American Public Media, the late alt-weekly City Pages, and KTOO, the public radio station in Juneau, AK.
Awards & honors
Winner, Breaking News, Large Newsroom — Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards, for Operation Metro Surge coverage contributed to the Minnesota Star Tribune’s award-winning entry
Awards of Excellence in Infographics; Line of Coverage; and Use of Multimedia and Design Elements — Society for News Design, for Where is Uptown?
Best Infographic/Data Visualization — Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, for How does 2024’s weather compare with your childhood’s? with Bryan Brussee and Mark Boswell
First place, local reporting — Minnesota SPJ Page One Award, for From One To All with Anna Boone and Katie Galioto
First place, data visualizations — Minnesota SPJ Page One Award, for New census data details diversity in Minnesota’s population with Yuqing Liu
Best student map — Wisconsin Land Information Association map contest, for The Life and Death of the Great Lakes Pipeline
First place, Informational Graphics — Virginia Press Association, for the Roanoke Rambler municipal election maps
Winner in Research — NACIS Student Map and Poster Competition, for Slivers of an Ancient Forest
Winner — NACIS Student Dynamic Map Competition, for Dark Sky Sanctuaries with Aileen Clarke and Austin Novak
Barbara Petchenik Award — best map by a graduate student, UW–Madison Department of Geography, for Slivers of an Ancient Forest
Arthur Robinson Award for best print map — CaGIS, for Slivers of an Ancient Forest
Slivers of an Ancient Forest featured in the NACIS Atlas of Design, Vol. VI
Brenda Pfaehler Award of Excellence — for instruction provided as a teaching assistant, UW–Madison Department of Geography
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for best multimedia — to the Arizona Public Media newsroom, for interactives including the 2019 Tucson election map
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, IRE Award and EPPY Award — to the News21 newsroom, for State of Emergency
Yuzer-Klatt Award for excellence in conservation or environmental storytelling — first-ever recipient, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Second place, feature writing — Hearst Journalism Award, for The Miracle of Finland