Zahrria Johnson is a second-year M.S. student in the lab. She received her B.S. in Biology with a focus in Ecology from the University of Houston in 2022. She is interested in research exploring environmental (in)justice, community resilience, geospatial data science, and the relationship between socioeconomic demographics in (sub)urban areas and patterns of environmental quality and risk. Through her graduate research in East St. Louis, Illinois, Zahrria looks to use mapping tools and methods to analyze how environmental justice communities are identified and represented geovisually.
Emily Ueberfluss is a first-year M.S. student in the lab. She received her B.S. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from the University of Illinois. She is interested in energy justice, carbon capture and sequestrations, and social justice.