Ms. Stellamaris Nakacwa

YouthMappers

I am Stellamaris Nakacwa, EverywhereSheMaps Regional Ambassador, a YouthMappers campaign towards increasing women's presence and participation in geosciences and STEM as a whole. I am a Geography graduate student at the West Virginia University contributing to research under the USAID project named the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (WGDP-I) with specific focus on promoting an enabling environment to increase women's economic empowerment through the application of geo-technologies such as; application of OpenStreetMap in solving women's significant challenges. I am an active board member of the OpenStreetMap community in Uganda and I have contributed to excellence of numerous projects applying GIS for improvement of livelihood and humanitarian response including COVID-19 Rapid Response. I also hold a bachelor's in Land Surveying and Geomatics from Makerere University and a leadership a YouthMappers Fellowship that I am exploiting in co-creation of spaces for youth empowerment especially fellow young women.