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			<h1>Speakers</h1>

			<h3>—A—</h3>
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				<li><b><a href="mailto:janesi@ucla.edu">Juliann Anesi</a></b>: Juliann Anesi is an Assistant Professor of
					Gender Studies at the University of California - Los Angeles. Her
					research
					interests include disability and indigeneity, educational policies,
					and decolonial feminisms. As a community educator and activist, she
					has also
					worked with non-profit organizations and schools in American Sāmoa,
					California, Hawai ́i, New York, and Sāmoa.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—B—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Carlos Barahona</b>: Carlos Barahona - I am a Data Scientist &
					Systems Architect for the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science
					&
					Policy. I have worked in IT in everything from desktop support to
					application developer, and now support UC Davis supporting all things
					ArcGIS</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:nic.barth@ucr.edu">Nicolas Barth</a></b>: Nicolas Barth is an Assistant Professor of
					Geology at the University of California, Riverside. He specializes
					in utilizing high-resolution topographic data (lidar,
					structure-from-motion photogrammetry) to answer natural hazard
					problems
					related to faults and landslides, and more broadly to understand
					landscapes.</li>
				<li><b>Heidi Batchelor</b>: Heidi Batchelor earned an MA in Geography
					from San Diego State University and specializes in Geographic
					Information Systems for the marine environment. Heidi teaches classes
					in GIS at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
					(SIO) and through UCSD Extension. She is an experienced data analyst
					having worked with a wide variety of oceanographic
					data including side scan sonar, sub bottom profilers, vessel and
					AUV-based multibeam, and acoustic arrays. At SIO
					she manages data repositories and databases for marine data, prepares
					data for 3D visualization and VR, and assists with
					many aspects of oceanographic research both in the lab and in the
					field.</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:kbeardsley@ucdavis.edu">Karen Beardsley</a></b>: Karen received her Ph.D. in Geography from
					the University of California, Davis, and before that, a Masters
					in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She
					worked for over 20 years as a researcher and GIS project manager for
					the
					Information Center for the Environment at UC Davis. Since 2014 she has
					served as Director of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship
					Program at UC Davis, and for four years has been the Director of
					Global Professional Programs for UC Davis Global Affairs. She was a
					Fulbright scholar, teaching GIS in Bhutan (2015‐2016), and a US Peace
					Corps Volunteer in Kenya in the late 1980’s, where she taught
					math and science in a rural secondary school. Her GIS career began
					shortly after her Peace Corps service, also in Kenya, working for
					the United Nations Environment Programme on elephant conservation. In
					addition to her position with Global Affairs, Karen continues to
					teach GIS for UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education and for
					UC Davis. She taught Introduction to GIS as a summer abroad course
					in 2018 and 2019 in Bhutan, and taught a virtual summer GIS class for
					UC Davis in 2020.</li>
				<li><b>Maylei Blackwell</b>: Coming Soon!</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:katherine.brenner@aol.com">Katherine Brenner</a></b>: Katherine Brenner is a UCLA undergraduate
					student majoring in environmental sciences and minoring in
					public health. She has been working in the Fielding School of Public
					Health Environmental Health Sciences Department as a
					student researcher. She is currently working on 2 projects- one in the
					Marlier Lab mapping 2018 California Wildfire PM2.5
					emissions as well as on a Natural & Working Lands scenario-based tool
					for the California Air Resource Board (CARB), focusing
					on greenspaces and health. She has a passion for protecting
					marginalized communities against unequal burden of diseases and
					plans to pursue an MPH after undergrad.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—C—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Kian Tyler Carson</b>: Kian Tyler Carson I am a third-year
					student at UCLA majoring in Economics with minors in Geospatial
					Information
					Systems and Technologies as well as Geography. I plan to graduate this
					spring and pursue either an MA in Applied Economics or an MS
					in Geospatial Sciences or Remote Sensing. I am a Washington native,
					born in Seattle.</li>
				<li><b>Jamie Chan</b>: Jamie Chan is the Management Services Officer at
					the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. She oversees the Center’s
					administration, budget, payroll/personnel, events, and special
					projects. Chan graduated from UCLA in 2010 and received a BA in
					political
					science. In her free time, she enjoys binge-watching shows on Netflix
					and playing video games. Her role in the Hate Crime Map project was
					overseeing the student workers who researched and collected reports of
					hate crimes to add to the dataset.</li>
				<li><b>Heather Noel-Chien Chou</b>: Heather Chou is a second-year UCLA
					undergraduate majoring in Geography and minoring in Geographic
					Information Systems and Technology (GIS&T) with a potential minor in
					Public Health. She is also UCLA's 2020-21 Geography
					Association GIS Representative. She is beginning her journey in
					learning GIS through courses and self-learning, and has a
					strong interest in combining Healthcare and Public Health disciplines
					with GIS technology. Heather is also a database research
					committee member and client navigator for UCLA's Asian Pacific
					American HEALTH Care organization where she performs health
					screenings for underserved Asian and Pacific Islander communities
					throughout San Gabriel Valley, California at health fairs
					and conducts research with other organization members. She is also a
					new member of UCLA's PILOT (Public-Health Initiative:
					Leaders of Tomorrow) Pre-Professional Public Health organization, as
					well as a Clinical Care Extender Volunteer for UCLA's
					Ronald Reagan Hospital. She is beyond excited to learn more GIS and
					apply its amazing capabilities to real-world issues in hopes to
					benefit and improve the well-being and quality of people's lives.</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:claireyin@ucla.edu">Claire Chua</a></b>: Claire, who graduated from UCLA Class of 2020
					with a B.A. Psychology was inspired by her frequent travels to take up
					GIS courses in her sophomore year. Her favorite part about GIS is
					cartography and making pretty maps. GIS exposed her to the world
					of data analysis and motivated her to pursue the Master of Social
					Science that she is currently working towards at UCLA. Pre-covid,
					you'd be more likely to find Claire at LAX than in the library, but
					these days she enjoys staying home and drinking a lot of coffee.</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:sachi.cooper@gmail.com">Sachi R Cooper</a></b>: Sachi Cooper is a third-year Geography
					student at UCLA. She serves as the USAC Facilities Commissioner,
					representing
					students with disabilities at the student government level.</li>
				</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—D—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Cam Denney</b>: Cam received a Master's in Geography from UC
					Davis in 2018. He currently works as a researcher for the Alameda
					County
					Community Food Bank. Cam uses GIS to understand the complex issue of
					food insecurity, and how food banks can better distribute food and
					advocate
					for policies to reduce food insecurity. He also teaches QGIS courses
					in the evenings through BayGeo. Cam previously worked for Kaart @
					Facebook,
					curating the data that goes into maps on Facebook. While at UC Davis,
					Cam's thesis was under the Institute for Transportation Studies where
					he
					created automated GIS tools to analyze wildlife-vehicle conflict.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—E—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:ethan_ebinger@berkeley.edu">Ethan Ebinger</a></b>: Ethan is a graduate student at UC Berkeley
					pursuing a Master in City Planning and a Master of Science in
					Transportation Engineering. He is interested in how GIS and data
					science can be used to improve transportation access and equity.
					Ethan currently works as a graduate student researcher at the Terner
					Center for Housing Innovation and in his spare time enjoys
					making wheel-thrown pottery. https://ethanebinger.com/.</li>
				<li><b>Ahmed Eldawy</b>: Ahmed Eldawy is an Assistant Professor in
					Computer Science at the University of California Riverside. His
					research
					interests lie in the broad area of databases with a focus on big data
					management and spatial data processing. Ahmed is the main inventor
					of SpatialHadoop, for big spatial data processing, and UCR-Star, an
					interactive repository of big spatial data. Ahmed has many
					collaborators in industrial research labs including Microsoft Research
					and IBM Watson. His work is supported by the National Science
					Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).</li>
				<li><b>Emily Esposito</b>: Emily Esposito is a graduate student studying
					psychology at UC Riverside. As a part of the Riverside Social and
					Spatial
					Cognition Lab, she studies how the qualities and characteristics of
					places interact with individual-level characteristics, such as
					attitudes
					or identity, to predict different behaviors. Her research interests
					are beginning to look at how people perceive places, and how social
					environments and physical places may differentially shape people's
					attitudes, experiences, and actions.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—G—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Max Andrew Gardner</b>: Max is a Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Systems
					Engineering interested in econometric modeling of intra-urban
					migration patterns.</li>
				<li><b>Anusha Goyal</b>: Anusha Goyal I am a 4th-year student at UCLA,
					majoring in Geography and International Development Studies with a
					minor in Geospatial
					Information Systems and Technologies. I'm an international student,
					from Dubai, who is looking to enter the geospatial data solutions
					market after graduating.</li>
				<li><b>Burke Greer</b>: Burke Greer has been mapping and analyzing
					geographic data for over 15 years and holds an MA from UC Santa
					Barbara’s Department of Geography
					and a PhD from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. As
					a geographer and scientist he has deep expertise in gathering and
					turning real-world data into
					information and products ready for mapping and spatial analysis.
					Burke’s experience working in agriculture, natural hazard planning,
					military facilities planning,
					and research science means that he knows how to leverage geographic
					data into real insights to help customers. Burke acts as a bridge
					between cutting edge GIScience
					and real-world implementation. He is currently the Geospatial Lead at
					Geosite, a startup in Palo Alto, California where he is working to
					help make geodata more
					accessible to end users.</li>
				<li><b>Joy Guey</b>: Joy Guey is establishing an innovation studio at
					Social Sciences Center for Education, Research, and Technology and
					works as an Emerging Tech
					Advocate at UCLA.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—H—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Alyssa Hemler</b>: Alyssa Hemler is the Project Director of UCLA
					Undergraduate Student Association Council Facilities Commission's
					Access on Board. Our work
					centers around fighting for the rights of students with disabilities
					on institutional, cultural, and infrastructural levels. Project
					MetaMap is an integral part of
					USAC FAC's work in making UCLA a more accessible and equitable place.
				</li>
				<li><b>Cassie Hoeprich</b>: Cassie Hoeprich, cityLAB UHI Fellow Cassie
					is an urban planner and community development specialist.
					Building off of her experience at the City of San Francisco where she
					worked on public realm and economic development
					strategies, she is currently pursuing a Masters in Urban and Regional
					Planning at UCLA. While at UCLA, Cassie's research
					focuses on public-private partnerships and government policies that
					advance spatial justice and undo racialized patterns of
					land dispossession within vulnerable communities. Cassie works for the
					Hollywood Partnership, a business improvement district, as
					their Research Manager and is a cityLAB Urban Humanities Initiative
					Fellow for the 2020-21 school year.</li>
				<li><b>Ryan Horne</b>: Ryan is UCLA's Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library
					Data/Metadata Coordinator. He came to UCLA from the University of
					Pittsburgh where he served as Research Associate in the World History
					Center. There, his work focused on developing open data standards
					to describe and model historical artifacts, geography, and events in
					order to visualize and inform our understanding of the social,
					political, and economic networks. Prior to this position, Ryan served
					as Director of the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
					and he currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Pleiades
					gazetteer of ancient places, an authoritative source for data on over
					35,000
					ancient locations in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Ryan received his Ph.D.
					in Ancient History from UNC-Chapel Hill.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—I—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Pushkar Inamdar</b>: Dr. Pushkar Inamdar is a Data Scientist in the 
					Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of 
					California, San Francisco (UCSF). His Ph.D. is in the field of Earth 
					and Atmospheric Sciences. His previous research experience is in the 
					Geospatial Sciences, including an application of geostatistics in understanding 
					temporal-spatial patterns. Since, joining UCSF, he has gained experience in 
					characterizing neighborhood attributes for epidemiologic studies, including 
					cohort and electronic health records studies as well as conducting geospatial 
					analyses (e.g., spatial autocorrelation, proximity analysis, kriging, geocoding, 
					remote sensing image analysis). He is applying more advanced concepts like deep 
					learning to perform remote sensing data analysis for the neighborhood characterization, 
					and application of machine learning on geospatial datasets to understand underlying 
					patterns of health risk factors and outcomes.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—J—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Jamie Jamison</b>: Jamie Jamison is a collection manager in the
					UCLA Library Data Science Center. She recently completed the UCLA
					Extension GIS and Geospatial Technology Certificate Program.</li>
				<li><b>Marta Jankowska</b>: Dr. Jankowska is an assistant research
					scientist and Geographic information system (GIS) specialist at the
					Qualcomm
					Institute, University of California San Diego. Her expertise is in
					spatial analytics including GIS, GPS, and spatial statistics as
					applied to
					health-related problems.</li>
				<li><b>Alicia Jensen</b>:Alicia Jensen is a seasoned environmental
					professional with an environmental policy degree from UC Davis (during
					which she first encountered GIS as a student intern and unofficially
					double majored in whitewater rafting), a Master’s Degree in Geography
					from San Diego State (where she became interested in the wildland
					urban interface), and 20 years of experience in land use planning,
					CEQA,
					and Phase 1 site analyses - mostly in support of project approvals at
					UC’s Office of the President. While in UCOP’s capital programs office,
					Alicia
					distinguished herself as co-chair of the 10-campus committee that
					formulated UC’s first sustainable water practices policy. In UCOP’s
					Risk
					Services office, Alicia has applied her land use planning background
					to UC systemwide emergency management for natural and human-caused
					disasters, a
					combination that is especially pertinent to the threat of wildfires.
					Most recently Alicia has taken an interest helping realize the
					possibilities of
					a systemwide GIS tool for emergency management by teaming with
					colleagues from across the system.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—K—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Albert Kochaphum</b>: Albert Kochaphum works for the Institute
					for Digital Research and Education and serves as the campus GIS
					coordinator for
					UCLA.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—L—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:rayneblaborde@gmail.com">Rayne Laborde</a></b>: Rayne Laborde, cityLAB Research Fellow Trained
					as an architect and urban planner, Rayne's interdisciplinary work
					links design, planning, and collective memory to produce interventions
					focused on spatial justice. Her current research includes
					re-thinking the role of Los Angeles Parks to serve the immediate needs
					of unhoused residents; tracing the spatial network of migrant
					labor in the greenhouses of Almería, Spain; and analyzing inequity in
					unincorporated LA County. In addition to her work with cityLAB,
					Rayne is a Levine Distinguished Fellow at the Ziman Center for Real
					Estate.</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:christopherwlam@gmail.com">Chris Lam</a></b>: Chris Lam is a fourth-year undergraduate studying
					computer science. His experience with programming began prior to
					entering
					UCLA, but he became involved with the Hate Crime Map project and
					mapping roughly two years ago. As a side task for his job in Social
					Sciences
					Computing, Lam picked up the Hate Crime Map where another student
					worker—now an alumnus—left off, developing it simultaneously with his
					skill set.
					He notes that this project was a learning experience and an eye-opener
					to data mapping in general, and is delighted to feel more equipped to
					tackle
					projects like this now.</li>
				<li><b><a href="dlasusa@ucsd.edu">Dan LaSusa</a></b>: Coming soon!</li>
				<li><b>Carolanne Link</b>: Coming soon!</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—M—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Sierra Mabanta</b>: I became involved in the geospatial community
					after I transferred to UC Davis. I pursued my minor in GIS and started
					routinely attending #maptimeDavis workshops each week. I was lucky
					enough to become an intern in Robert Hijman’s Lab and gained knowledge
					about different types of open source GIS platforms as well as unmanned
					aerial systems. I spent year at the lab, gaining valuable experience
					processing aerial imagery, and using OpenStreetMap for humanitarian
					efforts. I also got my Part 107 pilot’s license to fly drones used for
					one of the long-term projects. I began applying to jobs at the state
					shortly before I graduated and became a Scientific Aide at the
					Department
					of Water Resources (DWR). I assisted the GIS Analyst and helped with
					the new Drone Program. I have since become an Environmental Scientist
					and
					still utilize my mapping skills often, attending DWR’s Open Source GIS
					meetings, and staying involved in the Enterprise GIS Committee.</li>
				<li><b>Hoda S. Abdel Magid</b>: Hoda Abdel Magid, PhD, MHS is a
					postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Lorene Nelson and Dr.
					Michelle Odden
					in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health and the Center
					for Population Health Sciences at Stanford University. She is also a
					fellow in the Big Data-Scientist Training Enhancement Program
					(BD-STEP) at the Palo Alto VA. Her graduate career research promoted
					the
					understanding of new and emerging tobacco products use among
					adolescents and young adults. She received her Masters of Health
					Science in
					Environmental Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
					Public Health in 2015 and her Doctorate in Epidemiology from the
					University of California, Berkeley in 2018 with a focus in Social
					Epidemiology. Dr. Abdel Magid’s current research builds upon her
					previous
					training to further understand chronic disease risk behaviors and
					leverages spatial epidemiology to examine health disparities among
					socially-
					marginalized communities.</li>
				<li><b>Joseph Mascaro</b>: As Director of Academic Programs, at Planet,
					a San Francisco-based aerospace company that operates the largest
					fleet of
					Earth-imaging satellites, Joe created Planet’s Education and Research
					Program, and managed science, environmental, and humanitarian
					engagement,
					building Planet’s efforts to improve forest monitoring and
					conservation, track glacier retreat and cryosphere change, enhance
					food security, and
					promote ecological resilience for some of the world’s most vulnerable
					communities.</li>
				<li><b>Andre Mere</b>: I am a graduate student in the Earth and
					Planetary Sciences department of UC Riverside working with Dr. Nicolas
					Barth. I utilize
					a combination of field, digital, and laboratory research methods to
					study active tectonic processes operating proximal to Alpine Fault in
					the
					South Island of New Zealand.</li>
				<li><b>Martha Morrissey</b>: Martha is a machine learning engineer at
					Development Seed. She brings expertise around applying ML models to
					solve urban
					challenges and is expanding our modeling capabilities for detecting
					urban infrastructure like uncommon building types and energy grids
					faster and more
					efficiently. Martha is passionate about bringing open geospatial data
					to academics and innovators as a basis for addressing large-scale
					global issues.
					She previously worked at Maxar Technologies (formerly DigitalGlobe).
					Martha has a M.A. and B.A. in Geography from the University of
					Colorado, Boulder
					and the University of California, Berkeley. Her graduate research
					involved modeling bike commuting at high spatial and temporal
					resolutions in urban
					areas using a variety of data sources including crowdsourced cycling
					data and OSM data.</li>
				<li><b>Erin Mutch</b>: Erin Mutch is the founding Spatial Analysis and
					Research Center (SpARC) Director, of UC Merced’s interdisciplinary
					cross-campus
					research center supporting faculty, graduate, undergraduate and staff
					in geospatial training, geospatial implementation and research
					services. Before
					coming to UC Merced, Ms. Mutch worked in private GIS consulting for 15
					years and has a Masters of GIS from Pennsylvania State University. Ms.
					Mutch has
					experience with GPS data collection and training since 1997. She has
					worked on projects with the US Army, small municipalities and water
					districts, mining
					companies and her first GPS/GIS project was mapping golf courses for a
					personal autonomous robotic golf caddy. /li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—N—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Brenda Nicolas</b>: Dr. Brenda Nicolas (Zapotec) is an Assistant 
					Professor in Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount 
					University in Los Angeles. Dr. Nicolas received her PhD in Chicana/o 
					and Central American Studies from UCLA where she finished her 
					dissertation, Zapotec Generations Across Settler Colonial Borders: 
					Gendering Identity and Belonging. She will continue her book project 
					at LMU that looks at the transborder communal experiences of Zapotec 
					diasporas in Los Angeles.</li>
				<li><b>Andrew Nguyen</b>: Andrew Nguyen is a recent public health
					graduate from UC San Diego. He works in and has a passion for
					interdisciplinary
					community health projects that utilize practical technological
					applications and human-oriented design.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—O—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Debby Oh</b>: Debby is a data scientist from the University of
					California, San Francisco' department of Epidemiology and
					Biostatistics. She
					has a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Los
					Angeles and has worked on a range of public health topics including
					HIV/AIDS,
					cancer, childhood adversity, and health disparities. Her current work
					involves analyzing and visualizing large data sources including data
					from
					the cancer registry, electronic health records, census, and other
					public data sources.</li>
				<li><b>Elizabeth Owen</b>: Elizabeth Owen is a first-year graduate
					student in Urban & Regional Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public
					Affairs. She is
					also a 2020 alumni of UC San Diego's undergraduate Urban Studies &
					Planning program. Elizabeth's interests are focused in transportation
					and land use
					planning, spatial analytics, affordable housing/ADU development, and
					tactical urbanism.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—P—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Nicole Pereira</b>: Nicole Pereira is a PhD student in the
					Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School
					of Public
					Health and a Graduate Student Researcher at the UCLA Center for
					Healthier Children, Families, and Communities. Her primary research
					goals are to explore
					the value of measuring spatial equity to support alternative payment
					reform efforts with an interest in advancing population health
					outcomes. Specifically,
					she is keen on leveraging spatial information to better understand how
					neighborhood level factors can influence the integration of community
					resources and
					health spending.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—R—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Sri Ramesh</b>: Sri Ramesh is a Master of Development Practice
					(MDP) candidate at UC Berkeley where she studies applied data science
					and
					GIS for public policy. For the last 5 years, she has lived and worked
					in the development sector in India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and
					Washington DC, working on projects ranging from government finance,
					girls' education in former war zones, and randomized evaluations. Most
					recently, she led strategic monitoring and evaluation initiatives at
					Cloud to Street, a remote sensing startup providing flood analytics to
					African governments. Sri is an alumna of the US Fulbright Program as
					well as the US Department of State.</li>
				<li><b>Fernando Roman</b>: Fernando Roman is a 4th year undergraduate
					Environmental Engineering major at the University of California,
					Merced. Since
					June 2020, he has been a part of a UC Center awarded COVID-19
					emergency seed grant research team led by Assistant Professor Colleen
					Naughton at
					UC Merced entitled "Integrated Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
					and Geospatial Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater for Vulnerable
					Populations." As part of Dr. Naughton’s team, he 1) contributes to our
					global dashboard of wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2, 2) maps
					wastewater treatment plants in California and 3) analyzes their
					proximities to residential and commercial areas. Mr. Roman is
					currently enrolled in a UC spatial analysis and modeling course, and is applying
					what he learns in the class to his research. He loves all things
					related to water, and is interested with any tool related to the distribution
					of both wastewater and potable water. Mr. Roman is currently applying
					to graduate programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering.</li>
				<li><b>Michelle Vasquez Ruiz</b>: Michelle Vasquez Ruiz is PhD Candidate in the 
					department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern 
					California. She is a USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World PhD Fellow. 
					Her research considers the ways Indigenous populations in Los Angeles have 
					historically navigated spatial and racial inequalities in the city.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—S—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Charles Schafer</b>: Charles Schafer: Charles works as an
					Emergency Manager for UC Davis Health and is one of the Co-Chairs for
					UC Emergency
					Management Council subcommittee on GIS for Emergency Management. His
					role is to prepare and respond to internal and external emergency
					events for the
					UC Davis Health system including a Level 1 Hospital. Past roles
					include Emergency Preparedness Specialist for the California
					Department of Public Health,
					where he implemented GIS technology for tracking health facility
					closures during disaster events.</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:Jane.Schafer-Kramer@water.ca.gov">Jane Schafer-Kramer</a></b>: Jane is a Geographic Data Specialist
					with the California Department of Water Resources working as the
					Technical Lead for
					the California Stewardship of the National Hydrography Dataset. She
					learned GIS at American River College in Sacramento to enable her
					mid-life
					career shift She is serving as Chair of the California GIS Council,
					July 2020 - June 2021 - http://cgia.org/cagiscouncil; is a member of
					California
					Geographic Information Association - https://cgia.org/, an active
					member of URISA - https://www.urisa.org/ , and a job steward with SEIU
					Local 1000.</li>
				<li><b>Jared Schor</b>: Jared Schor is an Analyst and Program Designer
					at the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities,
					where
					he works to build Learning Communities around child and family health
					and develop tools to share data in ways that engage and motivate
					communities. He is particularly interested in applying human-centered
					design principles to the field of public health and aspires to build
					systems that help people live better lives. Jared holds a master’s
					degree in Sociology from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree
					in
					Economic History for the London School of Economics.</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:elia.scudiero@ucr.edu">Elia Scudiero</a></b>: Elia has a PhD in Crop Science from the
					University of Padua, Italy, which he got in 2013. He has been in
					Riverside
					since 2014, as a postdoc at the USDA-ARS US Salinity Laboratory, which
					is located on UCR's campus.Since January 2018, he is an Assistant
					Research Agronomist at the Department of Environmental Sciences. His
					"Digital Agronomy Lab" includes 2 postdocs and 2 jr. specialists.
					Elia's
					lab uses near-ground and remote sensing measurements to characterize
					and model multi-scale agro-environmental soil-plant processes to
					support
					sustainable agriculture and water management practices. His extramural
					funding includes The Lawn Institute, the California Department of
					Food and Agriculture, and USDA’s National Institute of Food and
					Agriculture, from which he received a New Investigator award in 2019.
				</li>
				<li><b>Pat Seed</b>: Oxford Map Companion: A Hundred Maps in World
					History. (2014); ESRI Map Book “Rising Sea Levels at Cape Blanco,”
					(best software maps) American Geographical Association representative
					to UN Climate Change Conference (Marakesh) (2016). Currently
					working on origins of magnetic variation on nautical charts ca 1460.
				</li>
				<li><b>Mōno Simeone</b>: Mōno Simeone (he/him/his) works for UCSF Real
					Estate Business Intelligence as the UCSF GIS Manager. His role is to
					support UCSF business systems by incorporating spatial analytics and
					location intelligence. Other roles include: Co-Chair of the UC GIS
					Leadership Committee, Co-Chair the UC Emergency Management Council
					subcommittee on GIS for Emergency Management, and the current
					Education
					representative for the California GIS Council, a state-wide body. Past
					roles include President of BayGeo URISA Chapter, Director of the
					GIS Education Center at City College of San Francisco. Past Projects
					include: Development of the California Stranded Marine Mammal GIS
					database (NPS), Development of the 2012 SF County Election Precincts,
					and GIS for Construction Logistics (UCSF).</li>
				<li><b>Shannon Speed</b>: Shannon Speed is a citizen of the Chickasaw
					Nation. She is Director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and
					is Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology. Dr. Speed has worked
					for the last two decades in Mexico and in the United States on issues
					of Indigenous autonomy, sovereignty, gender, neoliberalism, violence,
					migration, social justice, and activist research. She has published
					numerous journal articles and book chapters in English and Spanish, as
					well as published six books and edited volumes, including her most
					recent, Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants in the Settler
					Capitalist State. Dr. Speed currently serves as Past President of the
					Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—T—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:atariqi@ucmerced.edu">Arianna Tariq</a></b>: Arianna Tariqi is a fourth year Environmental
					Engineering major at the University of California, Merced. She found
					her
					love for mapping in March of 2019 when she joined Dr. Naughton’s
					research team, mapping nitrate contamination in drinking water wells
					in
					California and it’s potential relationship to thyroid cancer with a
					focus on disadvantaged communities. She also works on the mapping team
					for the COVID-19 emergency seed grant entitled "Integrated
					Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Geospatial Analysis of
					SARS-CoV-2 in
					Wastewater for Vulnerable Populations". Using her prior knowledge of
					ArcGIS Pro, she assists in the mapping of wastewater treatment plants
					and finding statistical significance of their proximities to
					residential and commercial areas. Arianna hopes to continue
					researching after
					graduation and is currently applying to Civil and Environmental
					Engineering graduate programs. When she isn’t finding the perfect
					color scheme
					for her maps, she spends time playing tennis and learning how to cook
					food with her family.</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:mmtobias@ucdavis.edu">Michele Tobias</a></b>: Michele Tobias is the Geospatial Data
					Specialist at UC Davis DataLab: Data Sciences & Informatics. She has a
					BA & PhD in Geography from UCLA and UC Davis, respectively, and an MS
					in Ecology from University of Michigan. She is a biogeographer
					who uses her geographic and geospatial research skills to assist
					researchers of many fields in learning and applying geospatial methods
					to their research. She oversees long-term geospatial data development
					projects like the American Viticultural Areas Digitizing Project
					and geospatial research projects at DataLab. Her personal area of
					research interest is in California’s sandy beach vegetation.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—V—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:micheldv@usc.edu">Michelle Vasquez</a></b>: Michelle Vasquez Ruiz is PhD Candidate in the 
					department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of 
					Southern California. She is a USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World 
					PhD Fellow. Her research considers the ways Indigenous populations in 
					Los Angeles have historically navigated spatial and racial inequalities 
					in the city.</li>
				<li><b>Cecilia Vu</b>: Cecilia is currently working at Esri as a
					Solution Engineer. Prior to her role at Esri, she studied Urban
					Studies and Planning at
					UC Berkeley with a minor in GIST. Her work focuses on creating
					products to help stakeholders adopt new approaches for making faster
					and better-informed
					decisions. She works with professionals specializing in infrastructure
					and asset management; transportation, and architecture, engineering,
					and
					construction (AEC). Her passion lies in transforming cities using
					technology as a catalyst.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—W—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Julie Wartell</b>: Julie Wartell has spent 25 years working with
					local, state and federal criminal justice agencies and communities
					around
					crime analysis, research and prevention; including as a crime analyst
					for police and prosecution, managing a regional crime mapping
					initiative,
					conducting research and evaluation for non-profits, as a National
					Institute of Justice fellow, and as an independent advisor. Julie has
					performed
					a wide range of research and analysis of crime problems, conducted
					studies of police and prosecutor processes, and assessed information
					technologies. She has conducted extensive training and presentations
					to officers, prosecutors, analysts and community internationally on
					topics relating to analyzing crime and problem solving. Julie has
					edited or authored numerous publications and teaches at the University
					of
					California–San Diego. She has an MPA from San Diego State and a
					Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Criminology and Police Management from
					University of Cambridge.</li>
				<li><b><a href="mailto:jweill@ucdavis.edu">Joakim A. Weill</a></b>: Joakim (Jo) Weill is a PhD candidate at UC
					Davis working on the economics of environmental inequalities. His
					research
					leverages microeconomic tools and causal inference methods to study
					(i) how environmental changes impact the most vulnerable populations,
					and (ii) the distributional impacts of public policies that aim to
					increase environmental resilience. Current projects investigate the
					unequal
					adaptation to flood risk in the United States and the distributional
					impacts of the flood insurance program, as well as the economic
					origins of
					inequalities in air pollution exposure. Prior to his doctoral studies,
					Jo worked as a consultant at the World Bank’s Environment and Natural
					Resources division. He holds masters in environmental sciences and
					environmental engineering from AgroParisTech, France.</li>
				<li><b>Parker Welch</b>: Parker Welch - Parker has worked on the
					Physical Planning, Development & Operations (PPDO) team for over 3
					years. He
					primarily supports the Physical and Environmental Planning group but
					has a hand in operational GIS and CAD services across all of PPDO.
				</li>
				<li><b>Amy Work</b>: Currently the GIS Librarian at UC San Diego. I
					support students, faculty, researchers and staff with their geospatial
					needs. I
					instruct workshops and helps curate geospatial data within the Library
					and across campus. In the past I ran a non-profit in Costa Rica
					engaging community
					members to use GIS to investigate community issues and worked with
					K-12, community colleges and universities across the U.S. to integrate
					geospatial
					technologies into their curricula.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—Y—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Jiue-An (Jay) Yang</b>: Jiue-An (Jay) Yang: Dr. Yang is a
					geospatial research scientist and developer at the Qualcomm Institute,
					University of
					California San Diego. His research focuses on the dynamics between
					place, human behavior, and health outcome. He is passionate about
					bringing this
					connection alive and accessible through spatial analytics and
					visualization.</li>
				<li><b>David Yu</b>: David Yu is a Data Scientist with the GeoAI team at
					Esri, where he works on applying machine learning solutions to
					problems
					in the imagery space such as object tracking & anomaly detection,
					pattern analysis and generative networks. His interest is in exploring
					the
					intersection of machine learning and GIS and its application to
					solving real-world problems.</li>
			</ul>
			<h3>—Z—</h3>
			<ul>
				<li><b>Bingyu Zhao</b>: Dr Bingyu Zhao is a postdoc in the Civil and
					Environmental Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. She specializes
					in city
					and regional scale traffic and transport system modeling. Her research
					experiences include pavement degradation, emission modeling, wildfire
					evacuation and post-earthquake resilience assessment. She uses a
					variety of GIS and spatial data analysis tools in all stages of her
					research,
					from initial conceptualization to visual verification of the results.
					By participating in the UC GIS week, she wishes to learn about new
					tools
					and ideas that can help her and colleagues to overcome the
					visualization/mapping performance bottleneck in their current
					research.</li>
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