Description
Book SynopsisEighteen stories about how ordinary girls with very different passions have become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world.
Women look to other women as role models and for inspiration. Seeing confidence, leadership, and accomplishments in other women helps a young woman envision herself with those qualities.
Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories tells the tales of how 18 women applied themselves and overcame obstacles, using maps, analysis, and geographic information systems (GIS) to contribute to their professions and the world. Sharing the experiences of their childhoods, the misstarts and challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned, each story is a celebration of a woman’s unique path and of the perseverance and hard work it takes to achieve success.
From oceanographers to activists, archaeologists to entrepreneurs, the women in
Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories can serve as mentors to motivate readers who are developing their own life stories and inspire their potential in a new way.
Trade Review"All of us have our own stories to tell; how and where we started, our accomplishments, our challenges, our most successful dreams realized. This book tells us how we can use maps, analysis and geographic information systems (GIS) to motivate and develop our lives and others. The women’s stories in this book definitely encourage us to succeed as individuals and as WON members. I can so identify with their stories! WON members and all women can and do make a difference in our government. We are the force!"
--Bronwyn Asplund-Walsh, President, National Association of Counties Women (WON)
* Reviewer *
"As informative and insightful as they are inspired and inspiring, the women's stories showcased in Women and GIS would be beneficial examples for all women with goals and ambitions of their own."
--Julie Summers, Midwest Book Review
-- Julie Summers * Midwest Book Review *
"Nancy La Vigne’s story very much resonated with me as she explored her various aptitudes and strengths throughout her educational journey and built upon each experience to construct an inspiring and rewarding career. Thanks again for sharing this book with me. I look forward to reading it to my 20 month old daughter so that she too may begin to map her own story!"
--Maggie Mick, Chief Advancement Officer, The Council of State Governments
-- Maggie Mick * Reviewer *
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Catherine Ball, rising high with `drones for good
- Elena Shevchenko, forging an international bond in tense times
- Holley Moyes, archaeologist explores Maya ritual caves
- Karen Firehock, connecting people to green infrastructure
- Kass Green, providing the big picture on natural resources
- Kate Chapman, open to helping others benefit from technology
- Kristen Kurland, the heart of a giving teacher
- Madison Vorva, taking her seat at the table
- Mary Spence, a cartographer worthy of queen’s honors
- Miriam Olivares, mentoring from rural Mexico to Yale
- Molly Burhans, turning landownership into land stewardship
- Nancy La Vigne, using quantitative research to tip the scales
- Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, conservation ecology on the wing
- Paulette Brown-Hinds, bringing community awareness to life with story maps
- Ranu Basu, pushing for power to the people worldwide
- Sylvia Earl, `Her Deepness’ works to save the ocean
- Wan-Hwa Cheng, green sea turtles the apple of her eye
- Wangari Maathai, the power of one little hummingbird
