Andy works with the University of California as Program Coordinator for the Informatics and GIS Statewide Program within the Division to Agriculture and Natural resources. In this role he supports a wide range of GIS and data science projects in agriculture, natural resources, climate change. He earned his PhD at UC Berkeley in Environmental Science Policy and Management, and has taught classes at Berkeley, Stanford, and Davis in spatial analysis with open source software, drone photogrammetry, GIS, environmental problem solving, population modeling, cryptography, African studies, social justice, and sustainability. Outside of work, Andy can be often be found hiking the hills of the east bay.