Meet the Team!

Prudence Katze

Research + Data Visualization Advisor

Prudence collaborated with CJ to research the NY state constitution, its history leading back to 1777, and all the ballot questions along the way. She helped us develop a framework to track all the constitutional provisions, and co-created the state maps showing how counties voted on questions to amend the constitution. We thank her for her willingness to jump down research rabbit holes in library stacks, ingenuity, and skills with data design!

Studies

BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Photography and Sculpture

Master’s in Urban Planning from Hunter College

Wants

To bring her urbanist perspective to address how political infrastructures that seem invisible intersect with daily life in New York City and State

Loves

Climbing rocks (especially at Brooklyn Bolders, where she's a City Rocks Youth Mentor), facilitating, making maps for fun, and watching films that take place in NYC made before the turn of the 21st Century

Works

Is currently a Data and Spatial Analyst at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development

Started with CJ as Data Director for our constitution project, researching and help build our ballot question analysis

Was the Research and Policy Manager for Common Cause/NY, where she was responsible for coordinating its research agenda while monitoring and analyzing legislation and policy trend, and the Policy Coordinator for Reinvent Albany, where she coordinated the NYC Transparency Working Group