Gabe Watson is a Digital Service for the Planet Fellow. He joined the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) in the Fall of 2022. As the Data Science & Applications Manager, his work focuses on evaluating environmental data and technology, developing analysis and applications, and assisting his EPIC team members with data support. He has a passion for racial justice and increasing access to, and stewardship of, the natural world. His professional focus is using data, visualizations, and narrative to tackle environmental justice issues. He enjoys building maps, discovering novel environmental and social data sources, and journalism. Previously, he spent three years at The Commons as a data scientist, supporting watershed organizations and conservation groups like Blue Water Baltimore, Environmental Integrity Project, and Chesapeake Legal Alliance with technology to manage, visualize, and analyze data. He graduated in 2018 from Occidental College with a B.A. in Economics and Urban and Environmental Policy.
