About
I’m a designer, cartographer, and design educator, based in Washington, D.C. I create projects—maps, images, interactive systems, and in-person events—that help us imagine places, past and future. My research looks at landscape change around the Chesapeake Bay region, and especially at the history of the District’s streams and shorelines.
I hold an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BA in English from Williams College, and I am currently working toward a Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland.
I taught graphic design and data visualization at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and at American University, and I helped to run Knowledge Commons DC.
I would be delighted to work with you on a project about making maps, analyzing spatial data, uncovering history, or telling the story of a places in print or on the web. Give me an email!
Get in touch
- Email: hello@imaginaryterrain.com
- Signal: email or DM for my number
- GPG public key (text/asc) and fingerprint:
2AD3 4E21 3CA4 F6B4 7FE1 241E F284 A593 4532 8EE7 - My newsletter is the best way to know when I’m offering a class or tour.
Social media
- Bluesky: @imagineterrain.bsky.social (I’m here most often)
- Twitter: @imagineterrain (largely inactive)
- Instagram: @imagineterrain
Selected press and events
- Tour · Lost Streams of D.C.: Lower Rock Creek, A Bike Tour (June 29, 2025)
- Panel · “Waterscapes of Enslavement and Freedom: Towards a Hydrography of Race and Placemaking in the Antebellum District of Columbia” (DC History Conference, April 2025)
- Tour · Lost Streams of D.C.: Slash Run, A Walking Tour (Dec. 2024)
- Interview · I Hate Politics (June 5, 2024)
- Talk · Native Plants & the Waters of Friendship Heights
(Friendship Heights Alliance, June 2024) - Press · Streams map in 730DC (March 29, 2024)
- Press · “The nation’s capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning”
(Washington Post, Dec. 19, 2023) - Press · “Shining ‘daylight’ on the Chesapeake Bay’s buried streams”
(Chesapeake Bay Journal, July 10, 2023) - National award · ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards – Honor Award for “Uncovering the History of the District’s Buried Streams.” On project team with Straughan Environmental. (2022)
- Press · “D.C.’s unique history provides a bit of extra security from sea level rise”
(NPR Weekend Edition, July 31, 2022) - Press · “These hurricane flood maps reveal the climate future for Miami, NYC and D.C.”
(NPR, July 28, 2022) - Talk · CHRS Preservation Cafe: Buried Streams, Jan. 22, 2022
- Regional award · ACEC/MW Engineering Excellence Awards – Grand Award “Uncovering the History of the District’s Buried Streams.” On project team with Straughan Environmental. (2021)
- Press · “70% Of D.C.’s Streams Have Disappeared. Where Did They Go?”
(WAMU/DCist, Aug. 16, 2021)
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