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 ..read more

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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/women-in-gis/support ..read more

Naz Ali is the Senior GIS Manager for CBRE Canada with almost 18 years of experience working in GIS. She specializes in commercial real estate applications offering market analysis across sever commercial property types. Naz will discuss using massive mobile data in site location analysis, and how the data from your cell phones helps to shape the world around you in terms of real estate decisions. Naz is the Committee Chair of Map Development for Women in GIS, and is a Board Member of the GIS Program Advisory Committee at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Naz received the Vancouver ..read more

Dr. Rebecca Lave is a professor at Indiana University. She has done work in advancing the research and visibility of Critical Physical Geography, or CPG. CPG combines critical attention to power relations with deep knowledge of biophysical science or technology in the service of social and environmental transformation. Her research includes CPG, historical landscape and hydroscape change, stream restoration, political economy and ecology, and Science and Technology Studies. She has published works such as Interactive Dynamics of Stream Restoration and Flood Resilience in a Changing Climate, Th ..read more

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 bac ..read more

Geo Rutherford is an adjunct lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee teaching 2D concepts. In the summers, she is the Art Director at Bue Lakes Fine Arts Camp. She co-chairs the whyyoumatter non-profit. She also has more than 1.5 million followers on TikTok, her educational content under the name geodesaurus has more than 55 million likes, and more than 380k followers on Instagram. She is here to discuss being an educational content creator, her most popular series: Haunted Hydrology, and how she happened on the creator lifestyle, including unexpected pitfalls and wins. --- Support this ..read more

Wilma is the Geographic Information Officer for the State of Idaho. Wilma began her geospatial journey as a crop consultant, and has also owned a consulting firm in Canada. In 2013, she joined the Office of Information Technology knowing that she was there to make a difference. In November of 2022, she became the GIO for Idaho. Wilma has a masters degree in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from Wegeningen University. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/women-in-gis/support ..read more

Esteemed guest Katie Grillo had the opportunity to present at the ESRI UC this year in San Diego and has returned to tell us about her experience! From selection to Jack Approved, check out how the plenary takes shape and how you could find your way to the stage! Check out her presentation here: https://mediaspace.esri.com/media/t/1_0s2tyx23  You can connect to Katie directly here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinegrillo/   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/women-in-gis/support ..read more

In this episode we talk with Katie Grillo, Geospatial Connector. Katie is a GIS Web Technology Specialist. Her mission is to empower data owners to understand how they can visualize their information through maps and digital storytelling. She provides hands-on trainings, presentations, live demos and support, all designed to help educate both GIS and non-GIS users on how to do more with their spatial data. By day, Katie works full time for the City of Cambridge, MA. During her nights she teaches at the University of Richmond, Virginia and also runs her own GIS Consulting Business, called Geogr ..read more

Fran Curtis is the Director of Digital Solutions for Pennoni, located at firm headquarters in Philadelphia, PA. Pennoni is a multi-disciplinary engineering firm, and ran is responsible for their portfolio of digital solutions with an emphasis on geospatial. Fran guides clients in their digital transformations, crafting solutions to help with a variety of workloads, implement solutions to extend the longevity of infrastructure, and to help them plan and forecast capital expenditures. Fran has more than 20 years experience in providing digital solutions to federal, state, local governments and F ..read more