storytelling through cartography + data visualization

GIS has let me take spatial data and connect it to the everyday stories around me. How do we connect with space? How do the places we move through shape how we see the world — and how does the way we live, in turn, reshape the land and fabric of that world?

I grew up in Indiana, live in New York, and have spent time abroad in Germany, Spain, and Portugal. That movement is the undercurrent of why I went deeper into the data — understanding has only made me more in awe of how differently, and how similarly, we all live on this earth.I'm grateful to bring these questions into traditional GIS, remote sensing, and participatory mapping — using all three to tell the stories that bridge us together as humans. Field notes and longer essays live on my Substack, Sundays with Selani →