WORK

My professional work focuses on developing and implementing community-based mapping methods that center data sovereignty, oral histories, and culturally responsive digital tools.

I am particularly interested in how mapping technologies and data practices can be adapted to support local struggles for social and environmental justice.

Since 2012, I have collaborated with Indigenous communities and organizations across the Amazon regions of Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia to map ancestral territories and monitor threats to land, culture, and collective rights. I have also worked on advocacy and applied research projects in the United States, Albania, Greece, Paraguay, Mozambique, and Kenya.

Over the years, I have learned that successful community-based work begins with careful listening and is sustained through iterative practice that keeps people at its center.

My practice integrates diverse cartographic tools and media, including but not limited to: pen, paper, oral narratives, audiovisual recordings, historical maps, QGIS, the ArcGIS Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Leaflet, and Mapbox.