Zyra Joseph Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Worked on the Jane-Finch Initiative • Identified key sites with cultural heritage value using quantitative and qualitative social research methods. • Participated in the City’s engagement processes by attending, participating, and summarizing key issues addressed in public meetings.• Contributed to community engagement strategies by providing city staff with engagement techniques to foster an understanding of the lived experiences of residents of racially diverse communities, and incorporated elements of the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Action Plan. • Compared over 15 registered survey plans with the municipal study plans of the area by utilizing ArcMap geoprocessing tools including rasterizing each survey plan which was incorporated into satellite images of the study area. • Collaborated on a team of 4 person to develop an ArcGIS StoryMap that visualized data and themes, including changes in urban patterns, identified sites with heritage value, and geocoded shared experiences of communities within the study area.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Utilized QGIS software to create maps that analyzed the potential impacts of COVID-19 on businesses for CUI's Block Study Report.• Interpreted, analyzed, and processed data, including Toronto Census data, to be included in the Block Study Report.• Created and managed a database that was compiled using census survey data which was directly incorporated into the maps which were created.• Contributed to the CityTalk initiative by summarizing and transcribing weekly webinars and blog posts.

Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad And Tobago

Consistently created content for an online education platform aimed at using technology to make education more accessible to students across the Caribbean.