case studies

Visual Research

Play Anyway, a narrative map on the state of women's and girls' sports in America, took home first place in the Map with a Message category of the 2026 Esri Storytelling with Maps competition at the Esri User Conference. It's the second consecutive year our team has taken the top award in the category.

The map opens with the momentum that's impossible to miss right now: professional women's leagues are drawing record valuations, audiences and investment, and the visibility of women's sports has never been higher. Play Anyway maps that rise, then examines a harder question: who actually gets to play, and where? Using geographic and demographic data, the map traces how access to youth and school sports varies by income, geography and community investment, and shows that the barriers girls face, such as cost, safety, transportation, weak facilities and a shortage of women coaches, are structural rather than incidental.

From there, the map makes the case for why closing these gaps matters well beyond athletics. It connects access to sports with outcomes like education, economic mobility, mental health and community safety, and frames athletic fields and facilities as civic infrastructure on par with parks and libraries.

Using Esri technology, the map also traces the spatial patterns of women’s sports access and resource availability as girls and women climb the sports ladder across the U.S.

Tariff Impacts on Construction

In order to quell client concerns over tariffs on commercial construction materials in the U.S., I have been partnering with our in-house economics team to visualize the impact we're seeing based on historic project data and reports from the U.S. Trade Department. This project is ongoing and continually updated as the tariff situation changes.

So far, we have been able to develop marketing materials, graphic responses to client questions, online articles, and an interactive tariff calculator. Check out some of this work here.

Award-winning Master's Capstone

The more I talk with women in my life, the clearer it becomes: we all have a story about shopping for clothes and how something that should be a mundane daily task has become a hallmark for self-critique and self-doubt in our lives. This data-driven look at real women’s measurements and size charts explores where we fit (and don’t) within a system built for simplicity, not reality. Through clean visuals and easy scroll-based storytelling, I invite readers to see how sharing our experiences—and understanding the data behind them—can help us reclaim confidence and individuality from an industry that too often asks us to be more compliant and standard.

Watch my capstone presentation here.

Data Deep Dive

Curious about the link between politics and tech influence, I explored Federal Election Commission data to uncover patterns in donations connected to the TikTok bill’s sponsors—particularly Congressman Mike Gallagher, who later joined Palantir. Combining FEC and OpenSecrets data, I mapped donations from Palantir employees against key legislative events and found striking correlations worth questioning. To make these insights engaging for first-time voters—especially Gen Z TikTok users—I designed the story as an Instagram carousel, blending credible data with a familiar visual language. Through user testing, I refined the format to deliver a concise, thought-provoking experience that invites viewers to reflect on how power, policy, and platforms intersect.

TEDx Clarksville

Barbie could reinvent herself just by changing her clothes, but real life isn’t that simple. Many girls grow up dreaming big, only to feel deflated when their bodies stop matching the beauty ideals they were taught to chase. For my Master’s Capstone project, I took a data-driven look at why the clothing industry fails to fit real bodies and turned it into an empowering conversation about self-acceptance. By understanding the data behind what makes each of us unique, we can rewrite the story from “fitting in” to “fitting ourselves.”

Watch my TED Talk here.

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