Hi, I’m Lauren!
As a consultant and educator, I work with research teams, administrators, and organizations to visualize and communicate their work. I’m interested in how data can support dialogue, decision-making, and inclusion when shared in thoughtful and accessible ways. I use community engaged research practices and data storytelling to bridge the gap between complex information and real-world impacts.
I spent two decades as an ecologist studying the plants, insects and microbes that have evolved alongside humans. I have worked with a multi-national and interdisciplinary community of scientists focused on the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments, mostly using tools of bioinformatics, community ecology, and citizen science.
I am currently a data visualization specialist at the Center for Data and Visualization Sciences and teach data visualization and storytelling within the Masters of Interdisciplinary Data Science (MIDS) program at Duke University.
Lauren M Nichols 