About
Juliet Eldred is a transit professional, artist and graduate of the University of Chicago, where she double-majored in Geography and Visual Arts. She currently works at Trillium, a transit tech company, and has previously worked for transportation planning and consulting firms Nelson\Nygaard and Spy Pond Partners. Outside of work, Juliet is the co-founder of the urban planning and public transit-themed Facebook group New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens. She also designs enamel pins of tiny buildings and stickers + magnets of fake road signs.
She completed her two senior theses: "We Will Make This Work:" The University of Chicago as Urban Planner, 1890—2017 (for Geography), and Ground Truth (for Visual Arts), in the Spring of 2017. Her work has been shown in numerous venues and publications.
Juliet is available for map, pin, and other design commissions; inquire here.
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Awards
The Kathleen A. Zar GIS and Story Maps Prize, First Place
UChicago Study Abroad Photo Contest, Third Place
The T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting, Second-Year Winner
Intel Science Talent Search, Scientific Research Report Badge
"Uglydolls in the Wild" Photo Contest, Winner
Press
Vox, “Gen Z’s High-Speed Rail Meme Dream, Explained,” March 2021
Mashable, “Bernie Sanders is a Confirmed NUMTOT,” January 2020
Curbed Transit Diary, “How NUMTOT Founder Juliet Eldred Gets Around Boston,” May 2019
The New York Times, “Can Society Scale?”
CityLab, "The 'Transit-Oriented Teens' are Coming to Save your City"
Chicago Maroon (Start: Gallery Show) (DoVA Thesis Show) (DisOrientation) (Outside That System and Hence Unspeakable)
Outside The Loop, WGN (interview)
Presentations
"New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens: Strategic Shitposting for Engagement and Outreach," TransportationCampNYC, October 21, 2017.
"Crafting Geospatial Narratives," Illinois GIS Association Regional Meeting, April 28, 2017
"Visualizing Institutional Racism: Mapping UChicago’s Impact on its Neighbors," CSRPC Teach-In on Racism and Activism, February 12, 2016
Group Exhibitions
Start: Gallery (April 20—May 20, 2017)
Department of Visual Arts Senior Thesis Show (March 31–April 23, 2017)
Screen Share Video Gallery (November 14–December 16, 2016)
Dad's Mad at Bleeding Heart (November 11, 2016)
Everything MUST GO! at Heaven Gallery (September 2–October 14, 2016)
Riding Color Waves at Archer Beach Haus (November 6–13, 2015)
Student Exhibition: Architectural History and Critical Media Practice at Midway Studios (June 2, 2015)
Publications/Commissions
WHPK zine (print)