Geographers without Borders

Jazzmen is an experienced GIS Technician and geospatial

Swati is a professor, consultant, founder, and leader

Brandi is a Senior Product Engineer at ESRI, where she has worked for the last nearly 3 years on developing robust solutions for stormwater and other customers. Prior, Brandi spent over 2 decades as a public servant working in local government in the Denver Metro area helping the organizations improve service development and streamline processes with GIS.  Brandi most recently worked on the GIS Request Management Solution with a group of end users to tackle the challenge of tracking GIS tasks and project management activities natively within the ESRI ecosystem. The solution was released at this year’s UC in July. Brandi lives in Colorado and has a Bachelor of Science in Earth and Geographic Sciences from University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Danielle is the Director at the Center for Geospatial

Eva Reid is the Senior IT Program Manager for DC Health

Wanmei Liang is a Science Data Visualizer at NASA Earth Observatory. Her expertise lies in GIS, remote sensing, data visualization, and cartography. Wanmei holds a bachelor’s degree in geography and GIS from UCLA. She actively engages in the GIS industry and makes valuable contributions to communities such as the Women in GIS, #30DayMapChallenge, #GISChat, and serves as a mentor, providing guidance and support to professionals in the GIS industry.

Maggie Cawley is a geospatial professional focusing on sustainability and urban planning. Maggie began in the urban planning world and started her company, Boomerang Geospatial, a geospatial consulting company specializing in education and conservation in 2013. This is where her journey with open geospatial started, including QGIS and Open Street Maps (OSM). With her company she led mapping education programs in places like Botswana and the United States, focusing on open source GIS. In 2019 Maggie was asked to join the board of OSM as Executive Director, and also serves as vice chair of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. Maggie has a Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor in International Studies from the University of Richmond.

Michelle Williams, also known as the Survey123 Jedi, is a

Véronique, or Véro, Couttee began her journey in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, completing a BS in Biology with a focus on Ecology and working as a wildlife biologist for 5 years. In 2018, Ms. Couttee came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar to complete an MS in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Policy at the University of Albany. During this time, she worked in a partnership with ESRI and the National Audubon Society’s Enterprise GIS team under a Dangermond Fellowship sponsored by ESRI.

In 2021 Ms. Couttee founded Geospatial Equity Tech (https://www.geoequitytech.com/services) to focus on the key role that strategic planning and effective leadership play in driving impactful social and environmental justice projects. Ms. Couttee brings Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDI-B) focused leadership and engagement to project management, coordination, strategic planning, and implementation.

In 2022 Ms. Couttee founded AfriTech (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/06184870a7124aa0ac60a6680229b71c) with the intent of elevating and empowering

Sam Dinning, who was on a previous episode of the podcast, is the current President of Women in GIS. Sam is currently part of the URISA Vanguard Cabinet, and is here to talk about accomplishments for the group in the past year, benefits of being a member, and her recommendation for young people entering the industry.

For more about Women in GIS, visit our website at: https://womeningis.wildapricot.org/