Talks and events

• Beyond the Flood w. AU Humanities Truck (ongoing)
• The Details Make the Map: Design Principles for Cartography (TUgis, August 2020)
• Designerly layout tools, at last: teaching new CSS layout techniques (UCDA, May 2019)

Classes

• Data Visualization and Information Design, GDES-360, spring 2021
• Design for Understanding, GDES-270, spring 2021

About me

I’m a designer, developer, and design educator based in Washington, D.C. I teach in the graphic design program at American University, offering classes that integrate culture, code, and form. I’m interested in place-based, participatory education, and in using products of design—maps, images, interactive systems, and in-person events—to help us imagine landscapes, past and future. (He/him/his.)

Current/recent projects:

• Before the Flood turns the AU Humanities Truck into a mobile, participatory atlas, which looks at how past landscape change can help us make choices in the face of the climate emergency.
• The lost streams project looks at D.C.’s shifting shorelines and buried streams.
• Knowledge Commons DC is a free school offering classes all over the city.

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