Conor White has recently graduated with a Professional Master of Education from the National University of Ireland, Galway. His university research included a study of migration integration in the Irish school system as well as a dissertation on the use of mapping as a teaching methodology in the classroom. He was part of a geographic international university field study of environmental change in Chengdu, China in 2016. He is currently in the U.S. on a graduate visa program and is working with the American Geographical Society as a research, writing, and mapping assistant.