Civic work

Maps and tools built for people who are usually assumed to have a car, current technology, or money to spare — food access, mental health, transit, and healthcare.

Screenshot of the Chicagoland Food Pantries and Transit Access map, showing CTA, Metra, and Pace transit lines alongside clustered food pantry markers across the Chicago metro area.
Civic — Independent Study

Chicagoland Food Pantries & Transit Access

285 geocoded food pantries across a 90-mile Chicago radius, cross-referenced against real CTA, Metra, and Pace transit lines to show what's actually reachable without a car.

180 of 285 pantries within 0.5 mi of transit

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Screenshot of the Canadian Wildfire Smoke Dashboard, showing an animated smoke plume extending from Canada across the Midwest to Chicago, satellite fire detection density near the Canada-US border, and Chicago-area PM2.5 monitors color-coded by AQI severity.
Civic — Independent Study

Canadian Wildfire Smoke Dashboard

Live, auto-updating dashboard tracking Canadian wildfire smoke and its impact on Chicago-area air quality — rebuilds itself daily via GitHub Actions, no manual updates.

Rebuilds automatically every day

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Title screen of the NAMI DuPage StoryMap: 'Stories from Individuals and Families Living with Mental Health Conditions,' created by Brian Bergstrom.
Civic — NAMI DuPage, 2023

You Are Not Alone

31 in-person community interviews turned into a StoryMap mapping mental health resources across DuPage County. Still live today.

31 responses · 2 weeks

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Screenshot of the Hospital Accessibility Analysis dashboard showing clustered hospital counts across Illinois and neighboring states.
Civic — Independent Study

Hospital Accessibility Analysis

Streams live Overture Maps GeoParquet data from AWS S3 alongside Census tract boundary data via pygris to analyze healthcare access across Illinois.

Sparked technical discussion with GIS and software engineers on LinkedIn

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Map comparing food-desert access across DuPage and Cook counties, overlaying SNAP retailers, farmer's markets, and Pace bus routes on 2020 Census demographic data.
Civic — MS-GIS Capstone, 2023 → present

Food Insecurity in DuPage County

My 2023 capstone layering Census data against SNAP retailers and Pace bus routes. Now being rebuilt open-source at a 90-mile Chicago radius — still in progress.

166 / 523 locations (31%) bus-accessible

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Screenshot of the Chicagoland Transit Accessibility dashboard, showing CTA stations color-coded by heat vulnerability risk.
Civic — Independent Study

Chicagoland Transit Heat Vulnerability

Rates CTA stations across walkable zones by heat vulnerability, layering climate and demographic data to flag where extreme heat hits transit riders hardest.

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Screenshot of the DuPage County Forest Preserve Trail and Tree Canopy Analyzer, showing trail segments color-coded by canopy shade density.
Civic — Independent Study

DuPage Forest Preserve Trail & Tree Canopy Analyzer

Analyzes canopy cover and trail elevation across DuPage County Forest Preserves to find the shadiest walking routes — built to solve my own need for a cool trail.

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Screenshot of the Illinois Live Weather Map and Spatial Dashboard, showing humidity and precipitation probability bubbles over Illinois cities.
Civic — Independent Study

Illinois Weather Dashboard

Live precipitation and humidity across Illinois weather stations — built after I noticed an unusually long stormy stretch and wanted to see it mapped out.

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Screenshot of the Nationwide Dashboard of ICE Detention Facilities, showing facility locations plotted across the United States and Canada.
Civic — Independent Study

ICE Detention Facility Map

Maps every U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility and its reported population as of March 2026, built on an ArcGIS Dashboard — making a large, dispersed federal system visible in one place.

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