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Alejandro Schugurensky

I graduated from USC in 2018 with a B.A. in Sociology and minors in Spatial Studies and Education and Society. I am interested in applying spatial thinking to different subfields of sociology, such as spatial inequality, demography, and the sociology of education. I mainly pursued my spatial studies minor in order to develop a quantitative…
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Lilly Nie

I am an Urban Planning and Spatial Sciences student with an interest in community engagement, equity-driven growth and accessibility to sustainable alternative transportation methods. I consider myself a public servant leader and an advocate for building healthy and physically active communities. I worked as a research fellow at the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC)…
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Coby Cohen

Jacob Cohen
As Jack Dangermond, President of Esri, says "GeoDesign is a vision for using geographic knowledge to actively and thoughtfully design." Because I have family living all over the world, I was fortunate at a young age to gain a good amount of travel experience. Through my travel, I was able to gain a broader vantage…
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Esri: STEM and GIS

Congratulations to SSI Professors Travis Longcore and Daniel Warshawsky on their contributions to Esri's new publication STEM and GIS in Higher Education. Dr. Longcore authored Chapter 9: GIST in Undergraduate Capstone Research Projects in Environmental Sciences, and Dr. Warshawsky authored Chapter 10: Teaching GIS in the Classroom: Story Maps as a Case Study. David J.…
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