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Miriam Olivares is the Head of Geospatial Support Services at Yale University Library and Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions. With over 20 years of geospatial experience, she coordinates geospatial support services in higher education. At Yale, and previously at Texas A&M University, she connects experts and teaches and consults GIS, thus enabling others’ geospatial power to promote teaching and cutting-edge research. She was featured in the book Women and GIS: Mapping their Stories, has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, has participated in binational and international GIS panels, and collaborated in projects based in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Central America, and Somalia. Her collaborations include interdisciplinary research concerning GIScience, crime analysis, natural hazards, marine conservation, and public health among other subjects. Miriam serves as a member of the board of review for the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Academic Network of the United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM): Americas; member of the State of Connecticut GIO’s GIS Strategic Plan Workgroup and a member of the GIS Clearinghouse Workgroup. Additionally, she is the co-founder and international chair of GIS LATAM and a fellow and adviser of the Yale Timothy Dwight College. Previously, Miriam served as a director of the board for the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and the New Haven-based Junta for Progressive Action. She also co-chaired Yale Women in Tech.
Miriam Olivares is available at multiple locations.
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