Portfolio

Here you can find works ranging from StoryMaps created while at the Clean Cooking Alliance, to static maps featured in papers and policy briefs while at the University of Michigan, Forest Use, Energy, and Livelihoods (FUEL) Lab, to a few cartography projects while a student in the Geography Department at UNC Greensboro.

For a quick preview of maps made in these projects visit Gallery

*PUBLICATION ALERT*

Money matters: Does access to financial services foster household energy transitions in Africa?

My co-authors and I found that that access to financial services plays a significant role in enabling household energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa, but the effects differ by gender and rural–urban context. Bank account ownership is consistently associated with greater adoption of grid electricity, solar devices, and clean cooking fuels, especially for male-headed households in urban areas, while mobile money and credit show more context-specific effects. Importantly, female-headed households benefit notably from mobile money and bank accounts in some settings, highlighting that expanding women’s financial inclusion could be a powerful pathway to accelerate equitable energy transitions.

Hearths and Health:
Evidence of the Global Impact of Household Air Pollution on Health

This StoryMap was developed in collaboration with my CCA colleague Alicia Oberholzer for the inaugural Week of Clean Cooking. We aimed to pull together "complex" knowledge of air pollution in the clean cooking sector and make it digestible for a non-technical audience, as well as present new literature findings to those who are already experts in the field.

Our StoryMap was featured and presented at the 2022 ETHOS conference, which supports the cookstoves and clean cooking community (link to presentation).

Esri's 2022 StoryMap Competition winner for the Health and Safety Category!

CCA Supported Research

This is a StoryMap I pitched and developed independently, thanks to the support of my Research, Evidence, and Learning team. CCA previously did not have one place where we could point donors and stakeholders to that collated all of the funded and managed research the organization has been involved in since its founding in 2010.

This collection brings together 5 separate StoryMaps - Highlights; Adoption, Technology and Implementation Research; Climate Research; Health Research; and Gender Research.

Map included in peer-reviewed article

City living but still energy poor: Household energy transitions under rapid urbanization in Myanmar

Aung et al. 2022

We thank Shannon Lloyd from the Forest Use, Energy, and Livelihoods (FUEL) Lab at the University of Michigan for designing a map of the study site.

Utilizing Open Source Data

The data used come from SEDAC on PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) levels.

This was put together with oversight from Cheryl Weyant while in the FUEL lab to present to our EPPSA colleagues on relevant sources of secondary data.