Lourdes Vera is a PhD student in Sociology and member of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI) at Northeastern University. She is interested in how D.I.Y. tools and data visualization can help communities mobilize to address environmental health and justice concerns. With EDGI, she has helped build and update this very website! She is also a member of EDGI’s Environmental Data Justice working group.
Christopher Cane is the Project Coordinator for EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch. He has an M.S. in Natural Resources and the Environment focused on Human Dimensions, and draws upon several years of experience as an environmental educator and project manager.
Steve retired from a 35 year career in software development and project management. He began his career at Bell Laboratories after receiving his Masters degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado in 1982.
Steve most enjoys programming, having worked with C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python. He developed and taught courses in C and C++. He is currently working as a volunteer on EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) project.
Steve lives in Bellingham, Washington with his wife Karen. He enjoys hiking and biking, and is active in several environmental groups locally and nationally.
I research how data technologies inform environmental governance and I collaboratively experiment with them towards more just and equitable ends.