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Maps are arguments
Every representation privileges some questions and suppresses others.
About / Perspective
The map was never the whole story.
I am a geospatial strategist and advisor working across geography, decision science, climate risk, insurance, and the institutional machinery that turns evidence into action.
The throughline
Twenty-plus years. One persistent question.
What happens between knowing something about a place and deciding what to do about it?
My career has crossed intelligence, public-sector geospatial systems, technology leadership, and the insurance industry. The settings changed. The underlying problem did not: organizations collect more information than ever while leaving many of their most consequential assumptions unnamed.
I have worked in and around national security, federal geospatial programs, startup technology, and insurance. I also teach and speak about intelligence and geography, bringing the same challenge to students, practitioners, and institutional leaders: evidence is not neutral simply because it is technical.
My academic grounding includes a master's degree in geography from the University of Denver. My continuing research interests focus on spatial decision science, the value of information, climate risk, and the institutional frictions that separate analysis from action.
A working philosophy
Unnamed choices acquire the costume of inevitability.
My job is to make those choices visible while there is still time to make them differently.