Work Examples
Data Analysis and Visualization
City of Arlington SocioEconomic Profile
Built primarily in Illustrator and Excel, the report utilizes American Community Survey and local economic data. This report introduced an updated format to the SocioEconomic Profiles that is still being used as a template for current iterations.City of Arlington Unity Council Report
This report represents the effort of many individuals to clearly portray the equity and equality disparities facing the City of Arlington. My responsibilites were primarily focused on data collection and visualization. The data in this report was presented to the Unity Council in a visually similar 'data report,' designed and organized by my direction, and revised by my superiors. The initial report was used as a basis for this final report, with the assistance of a graphic designer.Mapping Applications
City of Arlington's Development Dashboard:
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This dashboard was created using ESRI's ArcGIS Pro and online applications to provide an interactive experience to view the City of Arlington's open and transparent data. Everything displayed through this dashboard is publicly available through the City's Open Data website. While the Open Data website contains much more data, this dashboard specifically shows data relevant to the development process and physical development of the City of Arlington. This project has also been featured on UNHABITAT's compendium of people-centered practices, as seen HERE.Research
Master's Thesis
Building on Spatial Mismatch: A New Review of Literature and An Example Case Study
Listed as Co-Author
Transit in Flex: Examining Service Fragmentation of New App-Based, OnDemand Transit Services
This study examines how the problem could change, or perhaps be overcome, by the onset of app-based, on-demand transportation technology. Since jurisdictional fragmentation is a problem rooted in excessive local government autonomy (Weinreich, Skuzinski, Hamidi, 2018 working paper), conceivably, this could be overcome by private services, when funded by private sources, and regulated by states and regional governments, rather than locally.
This study surveys public officials across a range of medium to large local governments and the transit agencies that serve them, revealing which ones are in the process of “uberizing” their transit systems; what steps they have/have not taken to overcome fragmentation from the past; and what policy solutions regional leaders think could be implemented to provide services more favorable to cross-jurisdictional trips. This study concludes by identifying opportunities for better coordination across services and for federal and state policy makers to incentivize coordination at the local level. The authors find that transit agency service boundaries and municipal jurisdictional boundaries had a large and negative impact on service integration across jurisdictional lines. Yet much of the funding for the myriad pilot services comes from the same sources—state and federal funds, or MPO/COG support. This study recommends stronger requirements by federal and state governments, and by MPOs, to require service integration as a condition for receiving grant funds.
Language Assistant
In November 2021 I began working as a Culture and Language Assistant for a high-school in Arroyomolinos, a small town south of Madrid. Without knowing much Spanish, I started this adventure to gain more understanding of another culture and also to hopefully gain some language experience myself. My daily work changes depending on the class of the day as well as the teacher I am working with. My functional role changes between providing presentations to the entire class about an aspect of American life to working with small groups of students to test their English language comprehension and ability. As part of the NALCAP program, I am asked to provide a portfolio and final project.Here, I provide an introduction, overview of my assigned school, day-to-day activities, and an example introduction presentation.
For the final project, I chose to do a debate. The students will learn to use grammatical topics within the context of an informal debate project. In pairs, the students will provide arguments for and against a debate topic of their choice. They must provide factual evidence, rational thinking, and compare and contrast the counter perspective.