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John Lauermann

Faculty Director, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative Associate Professor, School of Information
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Alyssa “Lys” Bement

Graduate Assistant, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative MS City and Regional Planning
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Cisco Bradley

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative

Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences


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Caitlin Cahill

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative

Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences


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Kathy Carbone

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis & Visualization Initiative and Assistant Professor, School of Information


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Rachel Daniell

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative

Postdoctoral Fellow, Pratt Institute School of Information


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Gabriella Evergreen



Graduate Assistant, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative, MS Library and Information Science
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Anna Feldman

Graduate Assistant, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative

MS Data Analytics and Visualization


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Will Geary

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Information
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Mariah Hill

Graduate Assistant, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative MS Data Analytics and Visualization
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Mark Heller

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture


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Sara Hodges

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
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Radhya Kareem

Graduate Assistant, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative MS Historic Preservation
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Uzma Z. Rizvi

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative Associate Professor of Anthropology & Urban Studies, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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John Shapiro

Affiliated Faculty, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative Professor, School of Architecture, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
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Zoe Alexander

Visiting Scholar, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative; PhD student, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center


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Andi Schmied

Visiting Scholar, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative; PhD student, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest


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Pratt SAVI Badge, with a blue circle as the background, and SAVI text in the middle
Pratt SAVI Badge, with a blue circle as the background, and SAVI text in the middle
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SAVI Alumni

Former staff:

  • Jessie Braden, SAVI Director
  • Sara Eichner, GIS analyst
  • Can Sucuoglu, SAVI Interim Director
  • Case Wyse, GIS analyst

Former graduate assistants:

  • Ziqi Wang, MS Data Analytics and Visualization, 2023
  • Jesse Ludington, MS Museums and Digital Culture 2023
  • Haley Balcanoff, MS Sustainable Environment Systems 2020
  • De Han, MS Data Analytics and Visualization 2020
  • Josephina Matteson, MS City and Regional Planning 2020
  • Drew Stanley, MS Data Analytics and Visualization 2020
  • Zack Walker, MS Data Analytics and Visualization 2020
  • Anna Yie, MS Sustainable Environment Systems 2020
  • Jackson Chabot, MS Urban Placemaking and Management 2019
  • Rachel Daniell, MS Data Analytics and Visualization 2019
  • Lidia Henderson, MS City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning 2019
  • Trapa Barua, MS City and Regional Planning 2018
  • Jonathan Marable, MS City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning 2018
  • Kim Robledo, MS City and Regional Planning 2018
  • Maria Teresa Ruiz, MS City and Regional Planning 2018
  • Adriana Beltrani, MS City and Regional Planning 2017
  • Natasha Dwyer, MS City and Regional Planning 2017
  • Fareen Islam, MS Urban Placemaking and Management 2017
  • Sarita Rupan, MS Sustainable Environment Systems 2017
  • Ahmad Shaibani, MS City and Regional Planning 2017
  • Eugenia Tang, MS City and Regional Planning 2017
  • Bowon Chung, MFA Digital Arts 2016
  • Haley Cox, MS Urban Placemaking and Management 2016
  • Lian Farhi, MS City and Regional Planning 2016
  • Brett Promisloff, MS City and Regional Planning 2016
  • Acacia Dupierre, MS City and Regional Planning 2015
  • Jeff Sun, MS City and Regional Planning 2015
  • Korin Tangtrakul, MS Urban Environmental Systems Management 2015
  • Theo Roth, MS Library and Information Science 2014
  • Allen Spector, MFA Communications Design 2014
  • Leonardo Arias, MS City and Regional Planning 2013
  • Jen Boggs, MFA Communications Design 2013
  • Lindsay Donnellon, MS City and Regional Planning 2013