Geographers without Borders Women in GIS

Wanmei Liang is a Science Data Visualizer at NASA Earth Observatory. Her expertise lies in GIS, remote sensing, data visualization, and cartography. Wanmei holds a bachelor’s degree in geography and GIS from UCLA. She actively engages in the GIS industry and makes valuable contributions to communities such as the Women in GIS, #30DayMapChallenge, #GISChat, and serves as a mentor, providing guidance and support top rofessionals in the GIS industry.




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Maggie Cawley is a geospatial professional focusing on sustainability and urban planning. Maggie began in the urban planning world and started her company, Boomerang Geospatial, a geospatial consulting company specializing in education and conservation in 2013. This is where her journey with open geospatial started, including QGIS and Open Street Maps (OSM). With her company she led mapping education programs in places like Botswana and the United States, focusing on open source GIS. In 2019 Maggie was asked to join the board of OSM as Executive Director, and also serves as vice chair of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. Maggie has a Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor in International Studies from the University of Richmond.


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Michelle Williams, also known as the Survey123 Jedi, is a
passionate geospatial professional specializing in, what else but Survey123!


Michelle is a graduate of the University of Redlands, with a Bachelor of Science in Business and a Master of Science in Geographic Information Science and Cartography. Michelle came to the GIS realm a bit later in life and uses
her knowledge and experience to teach and influence young people, supporting their successes. Michelle regularly provides free Survey123 training to people,
and also consults on solutions for geospatial challenges. In addition to her passion for all things geospatial, Michelle is passionate about sharing her experience
with post concussion symptoms, from a concussion she experienced in 2022. She shares her story of this experience so that people will better understand what it is
like to suffer from a concussion long term, as well as to help those who have and are still suffering from this invisible affliction.  


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Véronique, or Véro, Couttee began her journey in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, completing a BS in Biology with a focus on Ecology and working as a wildlife biologist for 5 years. In 2018, Ms. Couttee came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar to complete an MS in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Policy at the University of Albany. During this time, she worked in a partnership with ESRI and the National Audubon Society’s Enterprise GIS team under a Dangermond Fellowship sponsored by ESRI.

In 2021 Ms. Couttee founded Geospatial Equity Tech (https://www.geoequitytech.com/services) to focus on the key role that strategic planning and effective leadership play in driving impactful social and environmental justice projects. Ms. Couttee brings Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDI-B) focused leadership and engagement to project management, coordination, strategic planning, and implementation.

In 2022 Ms. Couttee founded AfriTech (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/06184870a7124aa0ac60a6680229b71c) with the intent of elevating and empowering
emerging womxn in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) field through development of technical and leadership development skills. The goals of AfriTech include fostering mentorship between womxn, increasing womxn’s participation in economies, particularly in Mauritius and
developing countries, as well as increasing womxn’s participation in Research and Development efforts.  At AfriTech, fellows are empowered to participate competitively in diverse STEM careers,
introduced to a growing network of other womxn in the space, and taught how to develop and leverage a Personal Leadership Plan. Most recently they graduated their second cohort in the fall of 2023.













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Sam Dinning, who was on a previous episode of the podcast, is the current President of Women in GIS. Sam is currently part of the URISA Vanguard Cabinet, and is here to talk about accomplishments for the group in the past year, benefits of being a member, and her recommendation for young people entering the industry.



For more about Women in GIS, visit our website at: https://womeningis.wildapricot.org/


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Naz Ali is the Senior GIS Manager for CBRE Canada with
almost 18 years of experience working in GIS. She specializes in commercial real estate applications offering market analysis across sever commercial property types. Naz will discuss using massive mobile data in site location analysis, and how the data from your cell phones helps to shape the world around you in terms of real estate decisions. Naz is the Committee Chair of Map
Development for Women in GIS, and is a Board Member of the GIS Program Advisory Committee at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Naz received the Vancouver Corporate Distinction Award in 2010, the National Corporate Distinction Award in 2012 both issued by CBRE, and was recognized with an EXRI Canada Award of Excellence in 2017. Naz is a GISP, and attended the University of the South Pacific and British Columbia Institute of Technology.


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