Meet the Research Team
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LaDale Winling
PROJECT DIRECTOR
VIRGINIA TECH
LaDale is a historian at Virginia Tech, one of the co-creators of Mapping Inequality on redlining and the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, and author of the book Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century.
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Ben Miller
DIRECTOR OF CHICAGO RESEARCH
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Ben is a PhD student in History at Northwestern. He has contributed to projects for the National Archives, American Historical Association, Norton & Company, WETA-TV, and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. He works for a federal contractor on housing policy.
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Elliot Sheehan
SOCIAL MEDIA
VIRGINIA TECH
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Yasmine Grier
RESEARCHER
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Allie Hill
RESEARCHER
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Andres Rodriguez Caceres
RESEARCHER
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Lauren Escudero
RESEARCHER
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Calvin Bell
RESEARCHER
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY -
Cole Lanosga
RESEARCHER
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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Hannah Simmons
Black Metropolis Graduate Assistant
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Meet the Insights Team
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Jonathan Petters
VT LIBRARIES
Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services. Jonathan provides research data management planning, training, and curation support to researchers across Virginia Tech through the University Libraries.
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Max Oickle
Max is an undergraduate student at Virginia Tech studying Geography and GIS. As part of the mapping team, he works on finding the location of racial covenants and keeping the web maps updated.
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Imma Mwanja
VT LIBRARIES
Imma is the Geospatial Data Curator at Virginia Tech. She has a background in Urban and Regional Planning with a major focus on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She uses her GIS expertise to provide geospatial data support to researchers, faculty, staff, students and the Virginia Tech community in general through the University Libraries.
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Kara Long
VT LIBRARIES
Kara is a metadata librarian at Virginia Tech.
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Dan Nguyen
Dan is a metadata assistant with Virginia Tech Libraries
Meet the Advisory Board
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Dr. Tennille Allen
LEWIS UNIVERSITY
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Dr. D. Bradford Hunt
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
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Logan Jaffe
PROPUBLICA
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Dr. Laura McEnany
NEWBERRY LIBRARY
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Dr. Desmond Odugu
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE
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Dr. Jonathan Rose
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO
Past Team Members
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Maura Fennelly
RESEARCH DIRECTOR EMERITA
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY -
Leah Pothel
RESEARCHER EMERITA
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Esther Lian
RESEARCHER EMERITA
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Kayla Terrelonge
RESEARCHER EMERITA
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Anika Miro-Quesada
RESEARCHER EMERITA
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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Connor Tooman
RESEARCHER EMERITUS
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS
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Gabriel Bassin
RESEARCHER EMERITUS
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Zach Ashby
RESEARCHER EMERITUS
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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Victoria Kurlander
RESEARCHER EMERITA
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-CHICAGO
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Hannah Lahti
RESEARCHER EMERITA
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
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Chloe Zheng
RESEARCHER EMERITA
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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Molly Delaney
RESEARCHER EMERITA
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO -
Kat Humphreys
VIRGINIA TECH
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Bogdan Ivanytsia
VIRGINIA TECH
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Vaughn Burvis
VIRGINIA TECH
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Abbey Whigham
RESEARCHER EMERITA
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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Ebony Ellis
RESEARCHER EMERITA
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
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Carlos Velasco
RESEARCHER EMERITUS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-CHICAGO
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Steven Foy
RESEARCHER EMERITUS
VIRGINIA TECH
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Jennalee Beazley
RESEARCHER EMERITA
VIRGINIA TECH
Support
This project has been generously supported by the Newberry Library, the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and Virginia Tech Libraries, by Loyola University Chicago’s History Department, by hundreds of volunteer researchers, and with a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.