This episode features Dr. Zhuangfang Nana Yi. NaNa is a Machine Learning Engineer at Development Seed, where she works on a variety of impactful projects involving geospatial data. NaNa discusses how growing up as an ethnic minority in a remote area near the border of China, Myanmar, and Laos has shaped her specific sense of mission in her career, and how she found ways to leverage her PhD in Ecological Economics to make it all happen.

Resources, references, and organizations mentioned during the episode: 

Development Seed

Maxar 

UNICEF

Open Street Map

The Data Incubator

More on mapping schools with satellite imagery 

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Music credit: "Free Spirit" from https://www.purple-planet.com