The Team Members

The EIDC is a collaborative project that provides data, data tools and community connections to help community groups, policy-makers and researchers transform data into solutions that promote environmental justice and fight climate change. The EIDC is based at the Massive Data Institute in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.  

The team consists of faculty, researchers and students who ingest data, build tools and partner with community groups and policy-makers. Central to the concept of the EIDC is collaboration with partners at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) with significant work with scholars at Howard University and Morgan State University. We are proud of the work we have done and the relationships we have built with Howard University, Morgan State University, the federal government and public interest advocates.

As you read about our activities and impact, please let us know how we can help you.  We are confident that your ideas, energy and participation will help our uniquely collaborative space grow and advance the cause of using data to foster environmental justice and fight climate change. The EIDC is supported by a grant from the Bezos Earth Fund.

Michael Bailey
Professor and EIDC Director

Current members of the team as of November 2023

Raunak Advani (He/Him)

Georgetown School of Arts & Sciences, Data Science and Analytics ’24

Michael Bailey (He/Him)

Department of Government and McCourt School of Public Policy, Colonel William J. Walsh Professor

Le Bao (He/Him)

MDI Postdoc Fellow

Ben Burnley (He/Him)

Graduate Research Assistant

Christopher Dick (He/Him)

Senior Fellow

Himangshu Kumar (He/Him)

McCourt School of Public Policy, Data Science for Public Policy ’24

Ethan Rodriguez-Shah

McCourt School of Public Policy, Data Science for Public Policy ’24

Fanni Varhelyi (She/Her)

McCourt School of Public Policy, Data Science for Public Policy ’24

Minh Quach (He/Him)

McCourt School of Public Policy, Data Science for Public Policy ’24

Xinyu Zheng, (She/Her)

McCourt School of Public Policy, Master of Public Policy ’23

Partners

We want to hear from you 
If you have any questions, need some help, have feedback or requests for us, or would like our help setting up EIDC for your classroom, don’t hesitate to reach out to eidc@georgetown.edu!