Deja is a birder, North Carolina Stem Leader, TEDx Speaker, and Geospatial Analytics PhD student at North Carolina State University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics. I use mapping and open source geospatial tools to investigate environmental inequity in urban areas. She advocates for equitable nature access and promote exploring neighborhood nature. Nature can be found everywhere, not only in the amazing national parks, and state parks that we see on tv, but even close to home. She believes that everyone should have equal access to natural spaces, especially within the city, but research has shown that societal policies and systemic structures have created a legacy of inequitable nature distribution in urban areas.
