Transit-oriented development is a solution Salt Lake is adopting to address calls for affordable housing, public transportation, and sustainability—only that they’re not, and demand for affordable housing is mutually exclusive to the others when it comes to Salt Lake’s west side, which is predominantly diverse and low-income.

As we rapidly urbanize, the ones already on the margins of policy and ecological sustainability are pushed further into city outskirts as the white and wealthy flock into gentrified neighborhoods. Unethical data use and racism resulted in the west side of Salt Lake’s redlining, which affected lives beyond ones and zeros, and will do so for the foreseeable future. As this issue worsens, what kinds of cities will be left for my generation and those after?

My interests lie within the intersection of data science, environmental sustainability, spatio-temporal analytics, urban planning, and social equity.