Oforiwaa Pee Agyei-Boakye is a Geography Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota. She is also a GIS and data analytics consultant at Gonigs Inc. She is a former Appalachian Trails Conservancy (ATC) NextGen Advisory Council member, an American Trails Association Hulet Hornbeck Emerging Trails Leader, and was part of the 2017 World Trails Network Trail Visionaries Expedition Team to Tottori, Japan. She coordinated the equity map sessions of the 2021 Appalachian Trails Conservancy (ATC) Emerging Leaders’ Summit.

Raya Idrissa Ahmada is an Assistant Lecturer at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), a mentor and student advisor. She is very passionate about data science and is researching in the areas of open source GIS tools, database administration and data analysis and web application development. She is also keen in mentoring the students to come up with innovative ideas to solve existing problems in the community. She has worked with students in several development projects such as the STEM for Success Project Zanzibar, as a technical assistant with Kiokit (a digital classroom technology), and with the Resilience Academy (https://resilienceacademy.ac.tz/) as an internship coordinator to help equip the youths with the tools, knowledge and skills to ensure resilient urban development. She is also the faculty mentor for the SUZA YouthMapper’s chapter (https://www.youthmappers.org/). She is currently a Youthmappers Regional Ambassador in Tanzania and She is leading the ZHErTech Initiative at SUZA with the aim of helping young girls to excel in technology. She has been part of the team in the Partnership Enhanced blendedLearning (PEBL) sponsored by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and has led the development of the Web Technologies module currently in the OER Africa. Raya is also the E-learning and Curriculum expert under the GeoICT4e project which focuses on improving geospatial and ICT education in Tanzania (https://www.oph.fi/en/projects/geoict4e).

Airin Akter is currently working as an ESM ( Every Where She Maps) Regional Ambassador in YouthMappers. She completed her Master’s and Bachelor of Science in Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka. She has been with YouthMappers Dhaka University Chapter since the first step of it in 2016. She has achieved YouthMappers Research Fellowship,2018 award fully funded by USAID and YouthMappers. She has skills in implementing research methodology, assisting in data management, and analyzing the results of the research. Her educational background and experiences reflect a commitment and ability to plan, design, and implement research activities, training management, mapping project, and communication with local level people. Her interests include Disaster Risk Management, Gender inequality, climate and climate resilience, sustainable development, and humanitarian mapping. Follow her @Airinnila.

Andrea d’Amato, AICP has BS and a MS in Geography with over 30 years of experience in transportation program management and land use planning and has held several executive management positions in both the public and private sectors. As the Assistant Secretary for Operational Excellence at MassDOT, she has focused on improving operational performance among and between the Highway, Transit and Registry departments in the Commonwealth. Notable projects include: streamlining design procurement and project management at the MBTA; creating an integrated transit and highway construction coordination program “Plan Ahead’ to effectively plan, manage and mitigate multi-agency construction to minimize disruptions to the traveling public; streamlining the suspension hearing process at the Registry; developed and implemented a multi-agency real time and advanced notification program for the Chelsea Street Bridge for maritime and roadway users; and most recently, developing comprehensive training for project managers and support staff in highway, planning, MBTA and Rail to plan, manage and execute virtual public meetings that breaks down barriers to access for underserved populations. Andrea chairs the Transportation Research Board’s Strategic Management committee and co-chaired TRB’s Equity in Transportation conference. She was recently honored by WTS with the Leadership Award this January.

Lucas Belury has a passion for building a sustainable and equitable world through strategic partnerships and an activist-centered geographic perspective. He teaches at national community development and affordable housing conferences and has published on the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley, environmental justice and informal survival practices. His research focuses on environmental racism, informality and economic precarity. In August 2020 Lucas completed his Master of Science in Geography from George Washington University- his thesis focused on the connection between environmental racism, predatory lending, and economic precarity in the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley. For the last 5+ years he has worked at NeighborWorks America, a national affordable housing and community development non-profit. Through this role, he uses data analytics and GIS to advance the community development and affordable housing efforts of diverse stakeholders. His philosophy is centering local knowledge by empowering communities through data democratization, bottom-up policy solutions, and knowledge sharing.

Rafe has experience of naming and addressing from the United Kingdom and Australia ensuring compliance to relevant policies, procedures, legislation, and best practices. Rafe is determined to protect communities and preserve our cultural identity through place naming.

Mr. Samuel 'Dave' Birchett has been with NGA since 2003. In that time he has worked in a variety of analytic and liaison positions focusing primarily on strategic warning and WMD issues. From 2017-2020 he was assigned to the US Embassy in London as NGA's senior representative to the United Kingdom. At the conclusion of that assignment he signed on as NGA's first national GEOINT officer for economic security, threat finance, and climate change issues. Mr. Birchett currently resides in St. Louis, MO with his wife and two daughters.

Matthew Bonds is an associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder & scientific director of PIVOT. He holds a PhD in economics and a PhD in (disease) ecology from the University of Georgia. His research focuses on 1) the ecology of poverty and economic development; 2) infectious disease modelling, and 3) the science of implementing global health delivery systems. PIVOT works with the Madagascar government to establish a district level model health system. With novel data systems at all levels of care (community, primary and secondary care), this partnership aims to pioneer a new a science of health system transformation, with some of the most rigorously evaluated population level impacts in Africa. His work has been supported by a K01 Award from the NIH Fogarty International Center, a Scholar Award in Complex Systems Science from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, and a Rainer Arnhold Fellowship from the Mulago Foundation.

Gavin Bridge is Professor of Economic Geography at Durham University and a Fellow of the Durham Energy Institute. His research addresses questions of property, access, and control associated with emergent geographies of resource production and consumption, including the political ecologies of resource scarcity and security. Recent work includes research on raw material production networks associated with old and new carbon economies; and a continuing interest in how the materiality of resources shapes their appropriation and capitalisation. He is the author of Oil (Polity, 2017) with P. Le Billon; co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology (2015) with T. Perreault and J. McCarthy; and co-author of Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective (Routledge, 2018) with S. Barr, S. Bouzarovski, M. Bradshaw, E. Brown, H. Bulkeley, and G. Walker.

Xavier (Xav) de Souza Briggs is a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and a visiting fellow at the SNF Agora Institute on democracy at Johns Hopkins University. Xav is an expert on economic opportunity and inclusive growth, racial equity and pluralism, housing, urban and regional development, and democratic governance in the U.S. and abroad. An award-winning educator and researcher, he is also an experienced manager in philanthropy and government, having served as associate director of the White House Office of Management & Budget under President Obama and later as Vice President of the Ford Foundation.

Dr. Kristen Broady is a Fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. She previously served on the faculties of Howard University, Alabama A&M University, Dominican University, Fort Valley State University, and Kentucky State University and as a visiting faculty member at Jiangsu Normal University in Xuzhou, China during the summer of 2019. Dr. Broady served as a consultant for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C.; a senior research fellow for the Center for Global Policy Solutions in Washington, D.C.; a consultant for the City of East Point, Georgia and as an HBCU consultant for season two of The Quad on Black Entertainment Television (BET) in Atlanta. Her areas of research include mortgage foreclosure risk, labor and automation, and racial health disparities. She earned a B.A. in criminal justice at Alcorn State University and an MBA and Ph.D. in business administration with a major in economics at Jackson State University.

Solution Engineer at Esri supporting both the Global Infrastructure and Racial Equity Unified Teams.

Dara works as YouthMappers Communications Specialist. She manages YouthMappers’ social media and supports the planning and organization of virtual engagement activities for the network. Dara is passionate about youth development and truly believes that ‘mapping brings us together.’

Karen Chapple, PhD, is the inaugural Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as department chair and held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the U.S. and Latin America, with a focus on economic development and housing.

Kate Chinn is the Head of Community and Civic Engagement for AB. Since joining the firm in 2018, she has led the development of a new corporate philanthropy strategy globally, and she oversees the firm’s corporate giving, community engagement and civic responsibility activities. Prior to joining AB, Chinn served as a senior vice president at the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce from 2015 to 2018, overseeing investor relations and marketing, and executing a $22 million economic-development campaign for the city. From 2007 to 2015, she served as senior director of marketing at Rockefeller Center in New York City, directing the brand positioning and growth strategies for Rockefeller Center, Top of the Rock Observation Deck and the historic Rainbow Room’s multiyear renovation in 2014. Chinn graduated Phi Beta Kappa and holds a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Originally from Nashville, she returned in 2015 after 16 years in New York City, and she currently serves on the board of directors for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee and Harpeth Hall School. Originally from Nashville, she returned in 2015 with her husband and 3 children after 16 years in New York City.

Dr. Karilyn Crockett’s research focuses on large-scale land use changes in twentieth century American cities and examines the social and geographic implications of structural poverty and race. Karilyn’s book ""People before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making"" (UMASS Press 2018) investigates a 1960s era grassroots movement to halt urban extension of the U.S. interstate highway system and the geographic and political changes in Boston that resulted. Karilyn holds a PhD from the American Studies program at Yale University, a Master of Science in Geography from the London School of Economics, and a Master of Arts and Religion from Yale Divinity School. Karilyn served for four years with the Mayor's Office of Economic Development as the Director of Economic Policy & Research and the Director of Small Business Development for the City of Boston. She recently completed her service as the City of Boston's first Chief of Equity, a Cabinet-level position Mayor Walsh established to embed equity and racial justice into all City planning, operations, and work moving forward. She holds a faculty appointment as professor of urban history, public policy and planning in MIT's Department of Urban Studies & Planning. Karilyn’s career mission is to continue to work at the nexus of education, economic development policy and urban revitalization.

Isadora Cruxên is a PhD candidate in International Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studies the political economy of sustainable development, with a focus on the relationship between financialization and the governance of essential urban infrastructures and natural resources in the Global South. She is also interested in exploring more democratic, sustainable, and just forms of public decision-making and policy-making. Her other work has engaged issues such as participatory planning, social activism, and feminist organizing. At MIT, she is affiliated with the Data+Feminism Lab and the City Infrastructure Equity Lab (CIEL). Isadora holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Brasília, Brazil, and a Master in City Planning from MIT.

Gavin Bridge is Professor of Economic Geography at Durham University and a Fellow of the Durham Energy Institute. His research addresses questions of property, access, and control associated with emergent geographies of resource production and consumption, including the political ecologies of resource scarcity and security. Recent work includes research on raw material production networks associated with old and new carbon economies; and a continuing interest in how the materiality of resources shapes their appropriation and capitalisation. He is the author of Oil (Polity, 2017) with P. Le Billon; co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology (2015) with T. Perreault and J. McCarthy; and co-author of Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective (Routledge, 2018) with S. Barr, S. Bouzarovski, M. Bradshaw, E. Brown, H. Bulkeley, and G. Walker.