Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies Summa Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania (2021)
Route 49 Commute Knowledge Project (since May 2019)
Center for Safe Mobility at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design
Mixed-methods research on public transit commute patterns in the context of Philadelphia’s first new bus route in over 10 years, intended to improve access to major employment regions in the city.
New route, new faces? Measuring opportunities for exposure to sociodemographic diversity on transit using social interaction potential (March 2022)
Journal of Transport & Health, Volume 24
Measuring the effect that transportation interventions have on accessibility can be broadened by incorporating potential opportunities for social exposure, particularly with diverse others. We employ a modified social interaction potential (SIP) approach to measure changes in exposure to diverse populations based on the addition of new bus services to the transit network.Transportation planning efforts meant to promote greater accessibility to material opportunities through new transit alignments may also expand accessibility to social opportunities. We advance a methodological approach that crafts a nuanced portrait of accessibility that can help to orient future transportation planning policy.
Navigating Thick Space: An assemblage approach to daily travel (ongoing - 2022)
Center for Safe Mobility at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design
Using data collected from users of a new public bus added to the transit network in Philadelphia, we investigate a set of mechanisms by which transit riders organize, codify, and respond to diverse spatial encounters in their daily travel practices. We foreground this relation as a spatial assemblage and utilize assemblage thinking to understand how such diverse spaces act and are acted upon by transit riders, and how these relations allow for creative encounters, ingenuity, and alternative futures for transit space. We find that users develop new possibilities for transit spaces that complement, revise, or contest the formal geographies as conceived by public agencies and transit providers.
Presented at the AAG Annual Meeting 2022. Session: Challenging knowledge hegemonies in transport geography (2): everyday (and) subversive practices
Queer Mobilities (ongoing - 2022)
Center for Safe Mobility at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design
Documenting the present realities and future imaginations for public transit and related spaces by queer youth of color who gather in community arts programs in Philadelphia, via qualitative mapping methods.