NEWS

July 2026

A New Picture of Segregation is live

Our interactive site for the National Experienced Racial-Ethnic Diversity (NERD) dataset just went live. Explore where and when people across the U.S. actually encounter diversity, tract by tract.

July 2025

New home at UC Santa Barbara

I joined the Department of Geography at UC Santa Barbara this summer as Assistant Professor in GIScience and Urban Data Science!

August 2024

NSF Grant: Measuring Integration in Affordable Housing with Location Data

Bernadette Baird-Zars and I were awarded a $400,000 NSF grant to test whether affordable housing in high-opportunity neighborhoods actually produces the integration policy assumes.

June 2024

New Paper in PNAS: Race, Traffic Citations, and Police Stops

Our paper on race, traffic citations, and police stops came out in PNAS. As far as we know, it's the first road-level look at racial disparities in traffic enforcement using mobility data.

April 2023

Washington Center for Equitable Growth Grant

We received a $70,000 grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth (with Jacob Faber, Kate Thomas, and Thomas Storrs) to fill in some of the gaps in the historical record of New Deal-era mortgage programs.

March 2023

NSF Grant: Center for Household Energy and Thermal Resilience (HEaTR)

I joined the NSF-funded Center for Household Energy and Thermal Resilience (HEaTR) as Co-PI. HEaTR looks at how households — especially lower-income ones — experience and adapt to climate-driven heat and cold stress.

March 2023

Missing Pieces in the Puzzle: Leveraging Untapped Archival Data to Connect New Deal Housing Policies to Racial and Spatial Inequality

Jacob Faber, Kate Thomas, Thomas Storrs, and I received a $199,681 Russell Sage Foundation grant to look beyond redlining at how FHA and VA mortgage activity shaped contemporary racial inequality in housing, wealth, and neighborhood attainment.

April 2023

Urban Data Hub Launched at Cornell AAP

I helped launch the Urban Data Hub at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning — a convening space for people working at the intersection of cities and data.