GrassrootsMappingThe creator of GrassrootsMapping.org, Jeff designs mapping tools, visual programming environments, and flies kites as a fellow in the Center for Future Civic Media, and as a student at the MIT Media Lab’s Design Ecology group. He co-founded Vestal Design, a graphic/interaction design firm in 2004, and directed the Cut&Paste Labs project, a year-long series of workshops on opensource tools and web design in 2006-7 with Lima designer Diego Rotalde.
Jeff holds Bachelors in Architecture from Yale University and spend much of that time (and the following years) working with artist/technologist Natalie Jeremijenko, building robotic dogs and so forth.