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Jessica Bier
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Jess Bier is a first-year doctoral student in geography in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program of the City University of New York. Jess received her Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Middlebury College, where she completed a thesis in convex geometry. For two summers she worked as an assistant in a women's health study at a biochemical laboratory, during which time she helpded design a procedure for the analysis of breast milk using mass-spectronomy, work which resulted in her first co-publication. She has also studied in Egypt, Peru, and the Netherlands, where she presented in a colloquium on the economic legacy of Dutch colonialism. Her current research focuses on the role of discourse in popular struggles over the management of Machu Picchu in Peru, in the context of tourism as an economic force for globalization. In the future, she hopes to study social applications of geographic technology, including Geographic Information Systems, particularly for research about the economic effects of neoliberal policy on immigrants in New York City. For the past three years, Jess has also been a tutor at the Arab American Family Support Center in Brooklyn, where she helped found an after-school math program for middle and high school students. She is currently a physics fellow at Lehman high school.
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