Work

Current & Recent:
Projects & Essays

A collection of data storytelling and visualization projects, as well as essays and think-pieces.

Neighborhood Corridor 02
GIS · Story Map 2025

Neighborhood Corridor

An interactive project mapping the potential route refugees in 1989-1995 Ethiopia and Eritrea may have taken to Khartoum, Sudan, taking into account conflict zones and elevation.

Live on ArcGIS
Story Maps
ArcGIS Pro Python OpenTopography API R
Informal Settlements 04
Policy · Refugees 2025

Mapping Informal Settlements

Mapping the distribution of refugees and asylum seekers globally using UNHCR data.

Live on
Datawrapper
Datawrapper R Excel UNHCR Data
Twin Cities Redlining 04
GIS · Policy 2024 - 2025

Twin Cities Redlining

Georeferencing historically redlined regions against current racial demographics and public transit access to measure transit deserts and patterns of public displacement across Minneapolis–St. Paul.

Live on
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online R Excel Census Data
Language Tracking 05
GIS · Statistics 2025

Tracking Immigrant Acculturation Patterns Through Ethnic Enclaves and English Language Adoption

A spatial analysis of Somali acculturation patterns in three distinct U.S. counties: Hennepin (Minnesota), Franklin (Ohio), and King (Washington).

99% data retention across
boundary crosswalk
R ArcGIS Pro InDesign Census API
Odaa Restaurant 06
Digital Humanities · Interviews 2024 - Present

Return, Remains

A digital repository exploring nostalgia across diasporic narratives with interviews and reflections from artists part of Adera, Lije; Adera Lijen,

15+ artist interviews
conducted
Curatorial Oral History Qualitative Research NVivo
Emotional Metadata 06
Digital Humanities · Toolkit 2025

Emotional Metadata & Cultural Memory

A toolkit for digital humanists and curators addressing the risk of artistic flattening in archival practice by building recommendations directly from conversations with artists about how their work is documented and described.

Case study toolkit
Curatorial Oral History Metadata Qualitative Research
Queerly Guided 06
Digital Humanities · GIS · User-Centered Design 2025 · Ongoing

Queerly Guided: The Nights We Lost in NYC

Contributed mapping, data cleaning and analysis, and user-centered research (running user experience surveys).

Collaborative project with students part of Advanced Digital Humanities Fall 2025 the Pratt Institute. Visualizes queer night life through the exploration of bars, clubs, and other nightlife venues that no longer exist in NYC.

Live on ArcGIS
Story Maps
ArcGIS Online R Archives Qualitative Research
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Data Storytelling · IRB Certified 2025 – Present

Neighborhood Resurrection

Tracing three childhood friends who fled Ethiopia and reunited forty years later across different refugee camps and continents. A blend of spatial analysis, archival photography, oral history, and data humanities into one longitudinal narrative.

40+ years of displacement
mapped and documented
ArcGIS Pro Oral History Spatial Analysis Cultural Anthropology