I am a soon-to-be Master of City Planning and a soon-to-be unemployed person. Check out my resume or find me on LinkedIn.
I live in Downtown Oakland, California and am a huge nerd. If you were walking down the street with me and said “why do they do that?”, I might respond with some long, rambling diatribe about tenant improvement programs or tax-increment financing, when all you really wanted to know was why people smoke when it’s bad for them, or why there’s a sequel to the Chipmunks movie. That’s what walking with me is like.
Current roles
Masters candidate at the University of California-Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning, to graduate May 2013.
Graduate researcher for the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, exploring low cost performance measurement of demand-based pricing policies for the City of Berkeley.
PLUS Fellow for the Center for Cities and Schools, analyzing the walkability of new school construction through GIS.
Freelance web designer for various UC Berkeley faculty and research centers.
Social media producer for 511 Contra Costa County, on behalf of BlinkTag, Inc.
Past roles
Digital Publishing Researcher for the Berkeley Planning Journal, responsible for migrating the 25 year old student-run, peer-reviewed journal to an open access publisher, as well as building and managing their slick new blog.
Remote Special Projects and Web Design for The Center for Community Preservation and Planning in Covington, Georgia.
Transportation Reporter for Oakland Local, one of the top 50 news sites listed by the Columbia Journalism Review.
Policy fellow (and event organizer, volunteer coordinator, campaign manager, and general rabble rouser) at Walk Oakland Bike Oakland.
Software marketing, user experience, and transportation planning at Cambridge Systematics.
Undergraduate student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, as well as Undergraduate Association Vice President, Opinion Editor of The Tech, Apple-Bake champion, award-winning thesis writer, and erstwhile theater guild set designer.