Robert Manduca is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. his research focuses on economic inequality and on urban and regional economic development. Before becoming a sociologist he was trained as an urban planner.

Trained as an architect, construction engineer, and historian of technology, Dr. Martín connects the bricks and mortar of housing to social and economic outcomes of occupants, especially at the intersections of environmental and construction quality in housing with racial equity and income disparity. Currently, Dr. Martín is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and is the Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Dr. Martín previously led the Urban Institute’s Built Environment practice area, leading all research on energy efficiency, climate adaptation, environmental governance, the housing industry, and construction regulations. Before Urban, Dr. Martín was assistant staff vice president for construction codes and standards at the National Association of Home Builders, SRP professor for energy and the environment at Arizona State University, and coordinator for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing. Carlos received his BSAD in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MEng and PhD degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University.

Michael Meit serves as Director of Research and Programs for the East Tennessee State University Center for Rural Health Research, and as Deputy Director for ETSU’s HRSA-funded Rural Health Research Center, the ETSU/NORC Rural Health Equity Research Center. Michael currently leads studies focused on the evaluation of rural health programs, health equity, opioid misuse, and food insecurity, among others. He helped to develop the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Opioid Mapping Tool, and the USDA’s national-level Opioid Misuse Community Assessment Tool, which includes a Prosperity Index measuring county-level prosperity indicators. He is a member of the editorial and advisory boards for the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, the Journal of Appalachian Health, and Public Health Reports, the official journal of the U.S. Surgeon General.

Ndapile Mkuwu is an instructor at the African Drone and Data Academy, and also serves as a YouthMappers regional ambassador under the Everywhere She Maps initiative. Her recent projects have involved integrating drone and open data technology to solve some of the challenges that her community faces.

Maliha Binte Mohiuddin is a Bangladeshi Ph.D. Geography student at West Virginia University. Her passion for the nexus of geospatial technologies and women empowerment have been enriched by receiving her undergraduate and master studies in Disaster Management and her work experience as an Everywhere She Maps Regional Ambassador.

Laura is a Geospatial engineer working in the intersection of open technology, open data, and development. She currently works with a social enterprise in Kenya to support teams in using data for good. Additionally, Laura is a YouthMappers regional ambassador where she supports chapters in East and Central Africa. In her free time, she volunteers with local open data and FOSS communities.

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.

My name is Ellie Nasr-Azadani; I am a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in the Geography Department. I am a member of the Riparia center and recently joined the Landscape Ecology at Penn State lab (LEAPS). Before coming to Penn State, I earned my bachelor's and masters in environmental engineering.

My Ph.D. research primarily focuses on engaging Landscape Visualization, from hand sketches to complicated Immersive Experiences, for competency-based sustainability education. We have various ways to define competencies, but regarding sustainability, it is a combination of knowledge with skill and attitude, which enables individuals to act and behave concerning the environment. My research will be conducted in the Menominee Forest, Wisconsin, where we use qualitative questionnaires to see how 3D interactive landscape visualization can help with systems learning and systems thinking. Improving competency among stakeholders, we expect to implement better practices on Earth, which eventually leads to better adaptation to future uncertainties.

Founding member of the Openstreetmap Senegal community; I am interested in everything related to collaborative and humanitarian mapping.For my contributions, in recent years, an emphasis has been placed on the mapping of health facilities thanks to the healthsites.io platform where I work closely with Mark Herringer for the creation of tools and a community to share and update health facility data.

Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan is Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Public History in the History Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Leicester and an MA in Modern History from Queens University Belfast. She researches poverty, labor, mobility, crime and punishment in the early American northeast, and is the author of Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic (New York University Press, 2019). Her next book project explores the evolution of the poverty line through the subsistence activities of people experiencing poverty in early America.

As a practicing public historian, she has previously worked as an archivist and research analyst for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives, and with museums, archives, and libraries in the US and the UK curating exhibits, managing archival collections, and creating inclusive public programming. She is co-chairing the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Advisory Council on the state’s semi-centennial commemoration, and recently received the Commission’s Award of Recognition for Outstanding Service to Public Knowledge and Preservation of the History of New Jersey. She is currently working on a project about historical materialism in public history interpretation and commemorations.

Alison Omens is the Chief Strategy Officer at JUST Capital. She is responsible for setting and implementing strategy to achieve mission impact for the organization. Her work includes overseeing programs, revenue, partnerships, development, and strategic engagement with companies, investors, foundations, and nonprofits. She has orchestrated program collaborations with BlackRock, the Aspen Institute, Harvard Business School, and others.

Alison was most recently Advisor for Private Sector Engagement to U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, where she managed the inclusive capitalism strategy for the Secretary and with the White House. She was also responsible for engagement on the Department’s future-of-work efforts and its ESG investing guidance. Previously, she was Vice President at Outreach Strategies, an environmental strategic communications firm, and the Director of Media Outreach for the AFL-CIO.

Alison is on the Board of Directors of JobsFirstNYC, which expands opportunities for out-of-work and out-of-school youth and on the Advisory Councils of NextGen Chamber, a business organization for millennial business owners, and LitWorld, which promotes youth literacy through storytelling. She is also the co-founder of Smash Squad, a network for women focused on doing well by doing good. Alison received her masters of public administration from Harvard Kennedy School and B.A. from Scripps College.

Tracey Osborne is Associate Professor and Presidential Chair in the Management of Complex Systems Department at the University of California, Merced. She is also the founding director of the University of California Center for Climate Justice. Tracey’s research focuses on the social and political economic dimensions of climate change mitigation in tropical forests and the role of Indigenous Peoples, the politics of climate finance, global environmental governance, and climate equity and justice. She has worked on these issues globally with extensive field experience in Mexico and the Amazon. She also leads the Climate Alliance Mapping Project, a collaborative effort between academics, environmental non-governmental organizations, and Indigenous organizations working for a socially-just response to climate change through research, maps and digital stories. Tracey is a member of the Global Climate Leadership Council, a body that advises UC President Michael Drake on successful implementation of the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative’s mission. She received her PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

In her current position of deputy mayor, Sharon Owens oversees city programs and services that address quality of life in our community, including Neighborhood and Business Development and Parks, Recreation, and Youth Programs, as well as the Police and Fire Departments. Owens also serves as chief of staff to the mayor. Owens served as the third CEO of Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Inc. and previously worked for the City of Syracuse as Deputy Commissioner of Neighborhood and Business Development from 2010 to 2013 during the Miner Administration.

She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Greater Syracuse HOPE Initiative, the Consensus Commission on Local Government Modernization, and the I-81 Community Stakeholder Committee. In 2015 Owens received “The Kathy” Award from the Gifford Foundation, which recognized her commitment to establishing community-impacting advocacy. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and is most proud of her role as wife to Shaun Owens and mother to Simone and Isaac.

Dr. Martin J. Pasqualetti was the honored recipient of the Alexander and Ilse Melamid Gold Medal from the American Geographical Society in 2015 for his international contributions to energy studies. In 2018, he was named Alumnus of the Year by the University of California (Riverside); and in 2019, he was elected Fellow of the American Association of Geographers.

Dr. Pasqualetti holds positions as Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, and as a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, both at ASU. His research, publishing and teaching fall at the intersection of energy and society.

Dr. Pasqualetti has advised several agencies and NGOs, including the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the U.S. Office of Technical Assessment, the National Academy of Sciences, the Arizona Office of Energy Policy, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Natural Resources Defense Council.

Dr. Marie Price is a Professor of Geography and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. A Latin American and migration specialist, her studies have explored human migration’s impact on development and social change. She has served on the Council of the American Geographical Society since 1995 and became the society’s president in 2016. She is a non-resident fellow of the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank that focuses on immigration issues and she serves on the Board of the Dream Project-VA that supports immigrant youth through scholarships and mentoring. In 2017 she participated in an UN expert group on sustainable cities, human mobility and international migration, and in 2018 she gave the keynote at the UN Commission on Population and Development.

She is co-author of two leading textbooks in world geography: Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment and Development, 7th edition (2018, Pearson) and Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World, 6th edition (2020, Pearson). Her publications also include a co-authored report Migrants’ Inclusion in Cities: Innovative Urban Policies and Practices (2012, United Nations), co-edited book Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (2008, Syracuse University Press) and over 60 refereed articles and book chapters. She maintains a website, Globalization, Urbanization and Migration (GUM) that provides data on immigrants (foreign-born) for over 150 metropolitan areas of 1 million or more people throughout the world. Marie earned her graduate degrees in geography at Syracuse University and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura Pulido is the Collins Chair of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon where she studies race, environmental justice, and cultural memory. She has written numerous books, including Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (University of Arizona, 1996); Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (University of California, 2006); A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng) (University of California, 2012). She has received numerous honors from the Association of American Geographers, including the Presidential Achievement Award; Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly book in Geography; Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography; the Harold Rose Anti-Racism Award; and Ford and Guggenheim fellowships.

Tyler currently serves as HOT’s Executive Director. He joined HOT in April 2015 after 12 years leading diverse, people-focused, technology and data-enabled projects across the public, private, nonprofit, and international humanitarian sectors for organizations such as the American Red Cross, Save the Children, the United Nations Secretariat, and for Fortune 500 firms as a private sector consultant with Deloitte Consulting.

In his role at HOT, Tyler oversees a team of 100 staff deployed globally and works to engage and coordinate the efforts of thousands of HOT disaster mapping volunteers for projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining HOT, Tyler led the American Red Cross Hurricane Sandy (New York) community disaster recovery strategy development and implementation and directed a team of community recovery specialists engaging affected residents and community organizations on the ground.

Before joining the Red Cross, Tyler worked in a number of post-disaster and community development contexts in the U.S. and internationally. He taught in Metropolitan College of New York’s Emergency Management Program, and developed training curriculum in religious and cultural competency in disaster for the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Tyler holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management/Computer Science from Boston College Wallace E. Carroll School of Management.

Dr. Jaana Remes is an economist and a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company's business and economics research arm, based in San Francisco. Since 2003, Jaana has led MGI's research on productivity, competitiveness, and growth, as well as health and urban economics. Her most recent research sizes the global economic and social benefits from rethinking health as an investment, not just a cost to manage. Jaana leads MGI’s Urban World research series that includes sizing the impact of smart city solutions on citizens’ quality of life, mapping of economic power of cities, identifying global consumer groups shaping global demand, and mapping of the global company landscape; as well as the patterns of urban growth across the Americas. Her long term research interests include productivity prospects in the digital age, global growth prospects in an era of demographic decline, analyses of how different policies have contributed to industry competitiveness and growth; as well as in-depth assessments of the barriers to competitiveness and growth across a range of economies, including the US, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, UK, Finland, Sweden, and South Korea. She has led MGI's research on energy, with a focus on understanding the microeconomic underpinnings of global energy demand and the opportunity to reduce energy consumption through higher energy productivity. She advises global business and government leaders on related topics and frequently contributes to policy debates through articles and conference presentations. Jaana has a Ph.D. on applied economies from Stanford University and an MSc degree in economics and philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Strategic Foresight Initiative of the Atlantic Council, serves on the Board of directors of Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, and is a Search and Rescue K9 handler at California Rescue Dog Association.