Who's in the Lab
Lab Director
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Jerry Shannon
My broad interests are in urban development and inequality, geographic information systems, political geography, and place effects on health. More specifically, my research focuses on the role of maps and spatial analysis in shaping our understanding of hunger, housing, poverty, and neighborhood development. I'm also interested in the role of participatory research methods in mobilizing community action around these issues. |
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Undergraduate research assistants
Logan Wiley
Undergraduate Student in Geography
Logan currently works on the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, collecting and analyzing data from the Athens Magistrate Court. Outside CML, Logan volunteers at the Nellie B. Community Garden and the Emergency Department at Piedmont Hospital.
Undergraduate Student in Geography
Logan currently works on the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, collecting and analyzing data from the Athens Magistrate Court. Outside CML, Logan volunteers at the Nellie B. Community Garden and the Emergency Department at Piedmont Hospital.
Graduate students
Molly Azami
Ph.D. Student in Geography
I am a Geographer focused on Geospatial Science and GIS. I also have extensive computer programming and scripting background and enjoy merging these two interests to help with any mapping project, especially those focused on improving local communities. My current research are is with animal movement data to aide in human-animal conflict resolution.
Ph.D. Student in Geography
I am a Geographer focused on Geospatial Science and GIS. I also have extensive computer programming and scripting background and enjoy merging these two interests to help with any mapping project, especially those focused on improving local communities. My current research are is with animal movement data to aide in human-animal conflict resolution.
Taylor Hafley
Ph.D. Candidate in Geography
I am an urban geographer. I study housing, sub\urbanization, race, and suburbs. I use statistics, spatial statistics, GIS (R, Q, Arc, ArcPy). I am interested in segregation, demographics, inequality, housing policy, and social justice. My dissertation topic is a spatial assessment of the nationwide decline in homeownership. Broadly, my project considers housing tenure changes as they relate to housing finance policy, foreclosures, racial formation, the state, urbanization, and the suburbs in metropolitan America.
Ph.D. Candidate in Geography
I am an urban geographer. I study housing, sub\urbanization, race, and suburbs. I use statistics, spatial statistics, GIS (R, Q, Arc, ArcPy). I am interested in segregation, demographics, inequality, housing policy, and social justice. My dissertation topic is a spatial assessment of the nationwide decline in homeownership. Broadly, my project considers housing tenure changes as they relate to housing finance policy, foreclosures, racial formation, the state, urbanization, and the suburbs in metropolitan America.
Maya B. Henderson (she/her)
Ph.D. Student in Geography
Sge:no! I am a Seneca-Cayuga Nation citizen and Indigenous scholar interested in community-scholarship, urban climate justice, Indigenous geographies and tribal sovereignty. My research focuses on how the worldmaking possibilities of climate action can be co-opted by settler-colonialism in urban spaces and the necessity of centering Native Nations and urban Native communities in order to create true climate justice. I am committed to being grounded in community and place which includes Athens, GA where I currently live as a guest on the land. This has led me to the Community Mapping Lab and various community geography and GIS projects including Anti-Eviction Mapping, Brooklyn Cemetery, and Linnentown.
Ph.D. Student in Geography
Sge:no! I am a Seneca-Cayuga Nation citizen and Indigenous scholar interested in community-scholarship, urban climate justice, Indigenous geographies and tribal sovereignty. My research focuses on how the worldmaking possibilities of climate action can be co-opted by settler-colonialism in urban spaces and the necessity of centering Native Nations and urban Native communities in order to create true climate justice. I am committed to being grounded in community and place which includes Athens, GA where I currently live as a guest on the land. This has led me to the Community Mapping Lab and various community geography and GIS projects including Anti-Eviction Mapping, Brooklyn Cemetery, and Linnentown.
Amber Orozco (she/her)
Ph.D. Student in Geography
I am a critical food studies scholar who draws from urban geography, Black geographies, and critical cartography. In particular, I am interested in understanding the relationship between racial capitalism and urban food inequities, as well as how communities are organizing for liberatory futures through food justice. Community geography is central to my ethos as an academic and one of my main motivators for my pursuing a PhD. I have been an active participant in CML since Fall 2021 and have contributed to projects such as the Athens 1958 City Directory Project and Linnentown. I am also serving as the Student Representative for the Community Geographies Collaborative.
Ph.D. Student in Geography
I am a critical food studies scholar who draws from urban geography, Black geographies, and critical cartography. In particular, I am interested in understanding the relationship between racial capitalism and urban food inequities, as well as how communities are organizing for liberatory futures through food justice. Community geography is central to my ethos as an academic and one of my main motivators for my pursuing a PhD. I have been an active participant in CML since Fall 2021 and have contributed to projects such as the Athens 1958 City Directory Project and Linnentown. I am also serving as the Student Representative for the Community Geographies Collaborative.
Vanessa Raditz
MA Student in Geography; PhD Student in Educational Theory and Practice
I am a queer ecojustice educator and storyteller dedicated to community healing, opening access to land and resources, and fostering a thriving local economy based on human and ecological resilience. Through collaborative documentary film and digital storytelling tools like StoryMaps, I explore transformative strategies emerging from trans, queer, and two-spirit ecojustice organizers whose embodiments and actions disrupt normative status-quo ways of knowing and being. I am interested in narratives of intersectional climate vulnerability, as well as strategies for visionary and oppositional resilience that come from histories of struggle for liberation. I am inspired by decolonial and abolitionist thinking that reweaves mind, body, spirit, land, and home in the collective liberation of people and the planet. I am currently working on collaborations in Northern California, Puerto Rico, and Florida.
MA Student in Geography; PhD Student in Educational Theory and Practice
I am a queer ecojustice educator and storyteller dedicated to community healing, opening access to land and resources, and fostering a thriving local economy based on human and ecological resilience. Through collaborative documentary film and digital storytelling tools like StoryMaps, I explore transformative strategies emerging from trans, queer, and two-spirit ecojustice organizers whose embodiments and actions disrupt normative status-quo ways of knowing and being. I am interested in narratives of intersectional climate vulnerability, as well as strategies for visionary and oppositional resilience that come from histories of struggle for liberation. I am inspired by decolonial and abolitionist thinking that reweaves mind, body, spirit, land, and home in the collective liberation of people and the planet. I am currently working on collaborations in Northern California, Puerto Rico, and Florida.
Maya Rao
MS Student in Geography
Maya's research centers on food insecurity and hunger assistance within the state of Georgia. She is currently exploring the spatial distribution and relationship between state and non-state hunger relief programs. Maya is broadly interested in the ways that GIS can be used to assist community organizations achieve collective goals.
MS Student in Geography
Maya's research centers on food insecurity and hunger assistance within the state of Georgia. She is currently exploring the spatial distribution and relationship between state and non-state hunger relief programs. Maya is broadly interested in the ways that GIS can be used to assist community organizations achieve collective goals.
Lab alumni
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Dr. Dorris Scott
Dr. Xuan Zhang
Jennifer Gallucci
Dr. David M. Hecht
Dr. Jon Hallemeier |
Dr. Mariana Alfonso
Teddy Davenport Dr. Michelle Evans
Estefania Palacios
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