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PLOTS Staff

PLOTS is open for anyone to join -- please sign up! However, 8 staff members run the PLOTS organization, supporting the broader research community and coordinating events, strategizing, leading trips, fundraising and facilitating open source publication of the community's work, along with a variety of other tasks. The staff includes:

  • Liz Barry: Director of Urban Environments
    Director of TreeKIT; Faculty at Parsons, Pratt, Columbia. Urban designer and landscape architect, SOM 2007-09
  • Shannon Dosemagen: Director of Community Engagement, Education and Outreach
    Researcher and Ethnographer, Louisiana State University Anthropology and Geography Dept.; Oil Spill Response Coordinator, Louisiana Bucket Brigade 2009-11; Grassroots Mapping Gulf Coast Coordinator; M.S. Anthropology 2009
  • Adam Griffith: Director of Science and Coastal Environments
    Director of The Rivercane Restoration Project through the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, Teach for America, 1999-2001
  • Stewart Long: Director of Geography and Data
    GonzoEarth mapping services, Grassroots Mapping Gulf Coast map processing & publication lead
  • Mathew Lippincott: Director of Production and Production in Education
    Artist and Designer, Co-Founder of Cloacina; Partner, Biluna Birotunda Design; B.A. Oberlin College
  • Jeffrey Warren: Director of Research
    Center for Civic Media Fellow, 2008-10; Partner & co-founder, Vestal Design; B.A. Yale; M.S. MIT, 2010; Cartographer
  • Sara Wylie: Director of Toxics and Health Research, PhD MIT History Anthropology Science Technology and Society,
    Co-Directed MIT Center for Civic Media ExtrAct Project, Part-time faculty RISD Digital+Media Department, B.A. University of Chicago.