Advisory
The Place Project has an advisory board consisting of experts from public, private, and academic sectors. Their primary responsibility is to provide methodological guidance, offer critical and technical insights, and ensure that the Place project aligns with the requirements of communities in the United States that are disproportionately affected by health, spatial, and racial disparities.
The members of the Place Project advisory board combine vast experience in designing complex engineering and scientific solutions for both non-profit and academic settings, as well as a proven track record in conducting community-based research and outreach programs with minority and segregated communities.
The members of the Place Project advisory board combine vast experience in designing complex engineering and scientific solutions for both non-profit and academic settings, as well as a proven track record in conducting community-based research and outreach programs with minority and segregated communities.
Stakeholder Team
Hassanatu Blake
University of Maryland
Hassanatu Blake has a diverse perspective to public health with over 15 years of experience working across multiple sectors intersecting with public health. Currently, Hassanatu is the Director of ...
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Germán Cadenas
Rutgers University
Dr. Germán A. Cadenas (he/his/él) is an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at Lehigh University. He is a formerly undocumented immigrant from Latin America. As a ...
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Amena Karim
Community & UniteUs
Amena Karim has spent her career serving marginalized communities for more than 20 years. She is a multi-award-winning health equity advocate, keynote speaker, and mayoral-appointed ...
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Julia Koschinsky
University of Chicago
Dr. Julia Koschinsky is currently working on projects to integrate spatial data science with scientific reasoning to critically solve spatial data problems and avoid common cognitive and statistical ...
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Qinyun Lin
University of Gothenburg
Dr. Qinyun Lin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg. Most broadly, she is a methodologist ...
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Aresha Martinez-Cardoso
University of Chicago
Dr. Aresha Martinez-Cardoso is an interdisciplinary public health researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Her research ...
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Imelda Moise
University of Miami
Dr. Imelda K. Moise is a broadly trained health geographer, founder of DataChores and the Geography and Inequalities Lab. She has dedicated her career to culturally responsive research and ...
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Norma Padrón
EmpiricaLabs
Dr. Norma Padrón is a health economist and entrepreneur. She is the CEO and Founder of EmpiricaLab, a company specializing in peer–to–peer training within healthcare organizations ...
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Sue Polis
National League of Cities
Sue Pechilio Polis directs the health and well-being portfolio for NLC as part of the Institute for Youth, Education and Families. The portfolio includes the conceptualization ...
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Technical Team
Eric Larson
University of Minnesota
Eric Larson is a librarian (MLIS, University of Wisconsin-Madison), web architect, user-experience analyst, and senior application developer with over 17 years experience building ...
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Stuart Lynn
University of Chicago
Stuart Lynn is a developer, data scientist and tinkerer whose interests involve widening the participation in scientific discussion and inquiry to non-traditional communities through the ...
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Karen Majewicz
University of Minnesota
Karen Majewicz is the Geospatial Product Manager at the University of Minnesota Libraries, where she guides application development, develops metadata workflows, and curates ...
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Eric Polley
University of Chicago
Dr. Eric Polley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at The University of Chicago where he is the director of the Biostatistics Laboratory and the faculty ...
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Evan Thornberry
University of British Columbia
Evan Thornberry is the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Librarian at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Library where he supports teaching, learning, and research with ...
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Jamelle Watson-Daniels
Harvard University
Jamelle Watson-Daniels is a PhD Candidate at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is a Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow ...
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Malaika Simmons
NADPH
Malaika Simmons, MSHE, is the Chief Operating Officer for the National Alliance against Disparities in Patient Health (NADPH), a data-driven, nonprofit health research organization. She uses her ...
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ChengXiang Zhai
University of Illinois
Dr. ChengXiang Zhai is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also affiliated ...
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