Leah Schwizer provides support to the NASA Earth Science Data Systems GIS Team (EGIST). Leah is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) with over 15 years of experience supporting GIS data management, coordination, outreach and community engagement in order to increase and improve GIS implementation within organizations.

Fran Seegull is President of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance. The Alliance works to increase awareness of impact investing in the U.S., foster deployment of impact capital across asset classes globally, and partner with stakeholders, including government, to build the impact investing ecosystem. She also serves as Executive Director of the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing—a donor collaborative focused on growing the field.

Seegull was the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director at ImpactAssets where she headed investment management for The Giving Fund—a $1.5B impact investing donor advised fund.

Prior to joining ImpactAssets, Seegull was Managing Director at Funk Ventures, an impact venture capital firm. She also served as VP of Business Development at Novica, an online retailer representing artisans in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Seegull has a BS in Economics from Barnard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Investment Committee of Align Impact and the Advisory Boards of SOCAP and the CASE i3 Initiative at Duke University. She tweets at @franseegull.

Liz Ševčenko is founding director of the Humanities Action Lab, a growing consortium of over 30 universities issue organizations and public spaces, led from Rutgers University-Newark, that collaborate to develop student- and community-curated public memory projects around contested social issues. HAL’s latest project is Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice, a traveling exhibit, web platform, and public actions confronting histories of environmental racism and their legacies for the climate crisis, created by over 500 students and frontline community leaders across the hemisphere Previous projects included States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories, which inspired the Rikers Public Memory Project, a collaboration with Just Leadership USA and Create Forward, and the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, an international collaboration of universities and organizations Ševčenko launched from Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Ševčenko was founding director of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a network of historic sites that foster public dialogue on pressing contemporary issues, and served as Vice President for Programs at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She received her BA in history from Yale University and her MA in history from New York University. In 2017 she was awarded the Rome Prize to start her forthcoming book, Public Memory for the Post-Truth Era.

Vice Admiral Robert Sharp is the seventh Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. VADM Sharp leads and directs NGA under the authorities of the Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence. He became NGA’s director on Feb. 7, 2019.

From April 2016 to February 2019, VADM Sharp served as Commander, Office of Naval Intelligence and Director, National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office.  During his initial flag assignment he served as the Director for Intelligence (J2), U.S. Special Operations Command.

His previous operational tours include deployments with USS Ranger (CV61), Carrier Air Wing 2 embarked on USS Constellation (CV 64), and Carrier Group 2 embarked on USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Additionally, he conducted multiple deployments to Afghanistan as J2 of a Special Operations Task Force, leading joint, inter-agency intelligence professionals supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

VADM Sharp’s shore tours include assistant intelligence officer for Commander Naval Air Forces, Pacific; instructor duty at the Fleet Intelligence Center, Pacific; targeting officer on the Joint Staff; Intelligence Operations officer with U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Director of Intelligence for Naval Special Warfare Development Group; Director of Intelligence and Deputy Director for the Maritime Operations Center for Commander U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. 5th Fleet; and senior fellow on the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group. He commanded the Joint Intelligence Center, U.S. Central Command from August 2010 to August 2012.

A native of San Jose, California, VADM Sharp graduated from the University of the Pacific with a Bachelor of Arts in English and was commissioned through Officer Candidate School in 1988. He holds a Naval War College diploma and earned a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 2008.

In addition to multiple personal, unit, and campaign awards, he has been the recipient of the Vice Admiral Rufus L. Taylor award for excellence in instruction, the U.S. Army’s Knowlton Award for Military Intelligence, the Rear Adm. Edwin T. Layton leadership award, and the Naval Intelligence Foundation award for excellence in operational intelligence support to the Fleet.

Natalia da Silveira Arruda is an architect and urbanist from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), has an MSc. in Territorial, Urban, Environmental, and Landscape Planning from Polytechnic of Turin (Italy), and current is a Ph.D. Student in Urban Planning at Arizona State University (United States). She worked as a Professor at Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) from 2016 to 2021, where helped found the YouthMappers’ chapter GeoLab. Natalia is a YouthMappers Regional Ambassador Everywhere She Maps. Her interests include urban planning, sustainable mobility, collaborative and humanitarian mapping.

Matthew J. Slaughter is the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where in addition he is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Strategy Group, and an academic advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute.

Kristin Smith is a researcher at Headwaters Economics - an independent, nonprofit research group based in Montana. She leads the team's research and community engagement related to flood mitigation and contributes to research on public finance and fiscal policy. Kris holds a Bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College, a Master’s degree in Community Development & Applied Economics from the University of Vermont, and has a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences – Geography from Montana State University.

Dr. Caroline Solomon, Professor of Biology and Director of the School of Science, Technology, Accessibility and Mathematics and Public Health at Gallaudet University, is an aquatic ecologist and a mentor for STEM deaf and hard-of-hearing students. She has obtained 5 federal grants in the past 8 years for efforts to support deaf and hard-of-hearing students in STEM through providing authentic research opportunities and fostering vertical mentoring. Her work has been featured in numerous reviewed papers, conference articles, invited presentations, news releases and a short biography in K-12 science textbooks. Dr. Solomon’s contributions have earned her teaching and education awards from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Gallaudet University, National Public Radio (50 great teachers) and several features in prominent education media. In addition, she was invited to speak at the 2017 National March for Science in Washington D.C. Her latest publications include An Often Overlooked Element of Diversity: Disability (2021, ASLO Bulletin) and Meeting Frameworks must be even more inclusive (2021, Nature Ecol Evol). Dr. Solomon obtained her BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard University, MS in biological oceanography from the University of Washington, and Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the University of Maryland.

John G. Stehlin is Assistant Professor in the department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research focuses on urban political economy, mobility and transportation infrastructure, and questions of spatial justice. He is the author of Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and co-editor of Urban Platforms and the Future City: Transformations in Infrastructure, Governance, Knowledge and Everyday Life (with Mike Hodson, Julia Kasmire, Andrew McMeekin, and Kevin Ward, Routledge, 2020).