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Clancy Wilmott
Clancy Wilmott is an Assistant Professor in Critical Cartography, Geovisualisation and Design in the Berkeley Centre for New Media and the Department of Geography. She comes to UC Berkeley from the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester, where she received her PhD in Human Geography with a multi-site study on the interaction between mobile phone maps, cartographic discourse and postcolonial landscapes.
Professor Wilmott researches critical cartography, new media and spatial practices. She is the author of Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography, and the Digital published in 2020 by Amsterdam University Press. She has also published papers in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Big Data and Society, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac and the Journal of Television and New Media, amongst others.
Alexis E. Wood
Alexis Wood is a PhD student at Berkeley Geography with a designated emphasis in New Media who researches the intersections of right-wing social movements, climate change, and social media through an affective lense. She enjoys maps and mapping of the felt, imaginary, and situated. Outside of McCone, Alexis enjoys testing questionable food recipes on friends, reading surrealist literature and playing video games for an unhealthy amount of time.
Maria Pettis
Maria Pettis is a PhD student at Berkeley Geography with a designated emphasis in New Media.
J. Lee Crandall
Lee is currently researching new tech cities, technoeconomic development, and the reconfiguration of nature, land, and (multispecies) lives under crypto/tech imaginaries and politics.
Immediately prior to starting the doctoral program at Berkeley, Lee was a lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture in Troy, NY. They are a licensed architect in New York, where they managed several large-scale projects in public transportation and infrastructure in New York City and Puerto Rico.
Outside of academic work, Lee enjoys overanalyzing video games, reading and writing speculative fiction, and making things with my hands.
Sophia Perez
Sophia is a Geography PhD student. With roots in the California Bay Area and the Mariana Islands, she is dedicated to using film as a way to navigate cultural divides and advocate for environmental justice across the Pacific.
Maggie Camillos
Maggie (she/her) is a Geography PhD student researching how to map vitality and interconnectivity in Earth systems through studies in physical geography, bodies, cartography, cartographic illustration, and geospatial technologies. Outside of Geography, I love to sing, make music, paint/draw, go hiking/backpacking, travel, and dance. Also huge Harry Potter nerd.
Yuqi Tian
Yuqi, (pronounced Yuchi) (she/her) is an undergraduate student majoring in Geography with emphases in Critical Environments and Geospatial Representation. Yuqi is also pursuing majors in Comparative Literature & Italian Studies and a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies. She is interested in Coraline, disability geography and the everyday space. Yuqi has kept an orchid for over a year and it is “orchiding” for the fourth time!
Bim-Ray Yau
Bim-Ray is a first year MCP student and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2023 with a degree in Geography and minor in City and Regional Planning. Being obsessed with cities and all things transportation shaped his interest for maps and cartographic technologies. Outside of his studio.geo-? work he writes and edits political journalism and is an avid video gamer and casual bicyclist.