Griffin Kantz
Griffin is a second-year Master in City Planning student writing his thesis on alternative public data sources for travel demand models. He assists the Civic Data Design Lab with endeavors related to mobility themes, such as the Digital Matatus and NextStop projects. He is avidly loyal to his home city, Los Angeles. He earned a Bachelor of Science in policy and planning in 2017 from the University of Southern California's School of Public Policy, graduating as the department's class valedictorian. He worked at KOA Corporation, a transportation planning and engineering consultant in California, for 15 months before beginning his studies at MIT in Fall 2018. This past summer, he interned at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. He is a dutiful albeit reformist member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He spends free time documenting early 20th-century mass transit plans and augmenting a collection of classical music recordings. Home in Los Angeles, his family maintains a flock of chickens.
Coronavirus, Occupation, Race, & Coronavirus
The connection between COVID-19 and the health of the economy is obvious. Yet, the direct cause & effect relationship between the two is intricate to measure, because it is neither one-dimensional nor unidirectional.
The Importance of the "Starting Point" in Tracking COVID by Region
When comparing how different regions have been impacted by the coronavirus over time, it is important to define a "starting point": an early…
