At the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety, I dig into crash data and build maps that help answer the where, when, and why behind serious crashes — so we can prevent them. It’s public health work, just with a lot more GIS.
I’m a Research Analysis Specialist at the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Office of Traffic Safety, where I get to be the resident maps-and-data person. Two things fill most of my days: managing Minnesota’s fatal crash reporting to the federal FARS program, and the part I’m most excited about — the GIS and predictive modeling work that helps us understand where and when serious crashes happen so we can get ahead of them.
My path here has been happily non-linear — chemistry labs, public health policy analysis, community organizing, and now traffic safety. I hold a Master of Public Health in epidemiology (with minors in health equity and biostatistics) from the University of Minnesota, and I’ve come to see road safety as exactly the kind of problem public health is built for: preventable harm, unevenly distributed, that we can actually do something about with good data.
What ties it all together is a genuine love of finding patterns in messy data and turning them into something people can use. I especially enjoy the space between the technical and the practical — taking a stakeholder who’s drowning in numbers and helping them see a clear path forward. These days you’ll usually find me deep in ArcGIS, building tools that turn crash data into safer streets.
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Minors: Health Equity and Biostatistics
Master’s Thesis: Health, Place, and Class
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