Bonny McClain is a geospatial analyst, author, public speaker, and advocate for open data across all sectors and genres. Bonny has published books including recent titles, Python for Geospatial Data Analysis, a book for those of us in the geospatial sciences to fully immerse ourselves in python and Geospatial Analysis with SQL. 

Bonny travels the world speaking about data literacy, the vulnerability of cities, and how to think critically about urban morphometrics and how the built infrastructure is often a persistent barrier to improved quality of life and health outcomes. Bonny has a background in health and data science; a Bachelor of Science; Kinesiology and Exercise Science from Rutgers, a Doctorate in Chiropractic from the Southern California University of Health Sciences, a Master of Science in Biology from the University of North Carolina Greensboro focusing on population genetics, and completed an  Executive online certification in in Applied Data Science from the FU School of Engineering at Columbia. She is currently working on her next book: Geospatial Data Science and the Art of Storytelling from Locate Press.