The session is co-sponsored with the Applied Geography Conference and will be featured within the AAG Regions Connect joint regional meetings.

Devon Lechtenberg Capitol Region Council of Governments

Devon Lechtenberg () works as a Senior Transportation Planner at the Capitol Region Council of Governments (CRCOG), the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Hartford region in Connecticut. He conducts data analyses in ArcGIS, R, as well as other software platforms while working with federal transportation performance measures, regional car crashes, land-use scenario planning, and demographic trends in addition to training as a travel demand modeler. He is an enthusiastic supporter of applying a geospatial data science framework for addressing complex transportation and land use planning problems. His experience as a geographer continues to shape his work as a regional planner and data analyst. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2014) and the professional Master of Urban Planning & Policy (MUPP) from the University of Illinois at Chicago (August 2017).

Amy Rose Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Amy Rose () is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division. Her work is focused on geocomputational methods to characterize the spatiotemporal and demographic patterns of human populations to inform a variety of applications including urban resiliency, human health and security, and environmental impacts. Dr. Rose is currently the director for the LandScan Population Distribution program which focuses on developing data fusion algorithms for highly resolved global mapping of human population which includes diurnal and demographic variations, as well as spatially explicit and locally adaptive population futures. Dr. Rose also serves as an ORNL Joint Faculty Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The University of Tennessee.

Madhuri Sharma University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Madhuri Sharma () is an Associate Professor of Geography at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests include racial/ethnic diversity/segregation and contemporary housing markets; racialized and gendered economy and industry; gentrification, new urbanism and placemaking; poverty and income inequality; and informal economies and the geographies of the underprivileged in developed and developing economies. Dr. Sharma uses both quantitative and qualitative methods in addressing research questions pertaining to socio-economic and developmental geographies in USA, South Asia and other parts of the world. She practices and advocates for social justice and equality.

Lucas Belury NeighborWorks America

Lucas Belury () is Senior Manager, Business Intelligence at NeighborWorks America. He is is a geographer, researcher, and facilitator with a passion for building a sustainable, just, and equitable world through data-driven decision-making and socially inclusive geography. He has taught at national community development and affordable housing conferences and published articles regarding the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley, environmental justice, and race equity. His research focuses on environmental racism, the informal economy, and the use of data in the non-profit space. Much of his current work includes bringing data analytics and Geographic Information Systems to advance the work of diverse stakeholders—from grassroots non-profits to local and federal governments—to create positive social change.

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