Tamara Manik-Perlman joins Avencia as a GIS Intern and will be supporting the Cicero team. She's currently finishing her Master's in Geography at Temple University, where her research interests are focused on the geography of immigrant health and the changing relationship between government and the nonprofit sector. As a freelance GIS consultant, she recently worked on a project in which she mapped data from the Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia hotline and analyzed the relationship between caller needs, program locations and target neighborhoods. While it seems hard to remember a time before graduate school, Tamara has also worked as an editor and at environmental and health non-profits. Off the clock, she spends her time knitting, printmaking and cooking vegetarian feasts from locally-grown, organic produce. When she's not wearing out her passport traveling to far-flung corners of the earth, Tamara takes every opportunity to extol the virtues of South Philadelphia.
