I grew up in the mountains of North Carolina and studied geology and geography before wandering through a handful of jobs. Eventually, I realized information science is where it's at, so I decided to go for a GIS master's ("Geography" + "Information Science" = "GIS". Get it?).

I found a program at VU Amsterdam that gave me an excuse to go to the Netherlands. I ended up in Flanders (discount Netherlands), where I now help clients turn complex information into stories that hopefully don't make people's eyes glaze over.

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Freelance Writer and Mapmaker → 2025-Now

  • Health & Safety Bureaucrat → 2022-2025

  • Basically a Garbage Man → 2019-2022

  • Corporate Peon → 2018-2019

Map of the mountain region of North Carolina, 1941