about Chris Henrick

A geographic map of the city of Oakland, California, centered on downtown. The map's extent spans the San Francisco Bay to the west, the cities of Berkeley and Emeryville to the north, the Oakland hills to the east, and the city of Alameda to the south. The map depicts the road networks and names of various cities and neighborhoods, predominantly in the East Bay area. It includes a topographic shaded relief rendering of the rugged Oakland hills.

Map design © Chris Henrick 2024 - present. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Chris Henrick is an Oakland, California based Senior Front-End Web Developer and Design Engineer who’s work spans the domains of interactive (Geo) Data Visualization, Geographic Information Systems, and Cartographic Design. Chris currently works at Environmental Systems Research Inc (Esri) on StoryMaps.com and ArcGIS StoryMaps, web authoring tools that enable authors to create both long and short form interactive content, with or without maps. Prior to working at Esri he was a team member of the University of California’s Geospatial Innovation Facility where he worked on web applications such as Cal-Adapt that help make climate data more accessible to the public and private sectors for the mitigation of climate change in California. Previously Chris has worked for Google Cloud as a UX Engineer, GreenInfo Network as a full-stack Web Developer, and for Stamen Design as a Design Technologist.

Chris is an alum of Parsons School of Design, The New School in New York City where he earned an MFA in Design and Technology. His MFA DT thesis was a website he conceptualized and coded called Am I Rent Stabilized? that seeks to solve the problem of NYC landlords lying to tenants about rent-stabilization and illegally deregulating rent-stabilized apartments. You can learn more about it in an article he wrote for Urban Omnibus.

When not at work Chris enjoys bicycling, hiking, swimming, and playing the drum set in jazz combos. Outside of his day to day work, he has assisted with organizing and facilitating Maptime, a community of professionals dedicated to creating a safe and welcoming space to educate non-experts about GIS, cartography, and interactive web mapping, free of charge.

View Chris’s Curriculum Vitae and past talks and workshops he has given. You may also read the accessibility statement for this website.