Upcoming Events

URISA Caribbean (Nov, 2019)

Tuesday November 19, 2019 10:30am - 12:00pm

Women in the Geospatial Sciences: Building Leaders for tomorrow (Justine Blanford (Penn State) & Jane Read (Syracuse University)) Few career trajectories are straight forward or linear. In reality many of us have to balance careers with life and take a ‘scenic’ career tour that provide us with experiences that can help us become leaders in the future. During this session we will highlight challenges women geospatial scientists face and cover topics such as Work-Life Integration (WLI), Career Trajectories & Leadership (TL), Mentoring & Coaching (ML), Communication & Language (CL) and Obstacles, Conflicts & Solutions (OCS) and the importance of providing safe spaces for discussions centered on these topics.

Moderator: Tricia Melville, GISP. GIS Manager, Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries

Panelists

• Renee Babb. GIS & Remote Sensing Specialist, GeoOrbis Consulting Inc.
• Cherece Wallace. Director, Land Management Department, Office of The Chief Secretary,Tobago House of Assembly
• Cecille Blake. UN-GGIM and UNGEGN Secretariats, United Nations Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• Sheryl-Anne Haynes, MPhil. Development Consultant, Town and Country Planning
• Jacqueline DaCosta
• Simone Lloyd

Join us at the AAG 2019 for a panel Session on Women in Geography, Building Leaders for Tomorrow

Organizers: Jane Read, Syracuse University and Justine Blanford, Penn State University

Place and Time: Washington, DC - April 6, 2019

This panel discussion will explore challenges women currently face in our universities, and provide recommendations to retain women leaders in geography.

The panel will bring together women leaders from across different areas of geography (human, physical, geospatial) to share their experiences and strategies for success as leaders in their fields. Discussions will touch on one or many of work-life integration, career trajectories and leadership, mentoring and coaching, communication and language, and obstacles, conflicts and solutions.

The motivation for this panel stems from the first TRELIS* (Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM - Geospatial Sciences) workshop held in Madison, WI in May 2018, which brought together 16 women from diverse institutions to network and discuss career development and trajectories in the geospatial sciences. While it is clear that some issues are specific to the geospatial sciences, others relate to women across the discipline. We hope this panel will enable us to continue some of the conversations started in Madison with a wider group of geographers attending the AAG meeting in 2019.

This discussion will be relevant to academics at all career stages, including graduate students, post-docs, and early- and mid-career faculty.

*TRELIS leadership team: Kate Beard-Tisdale, University of Maine; Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Hunter College; Diana Sinton, UCGIS; Sarah Battersby, Tableau; Barbara Buttenfield, University of Colorado; Karen Kemp, University of Southern California; Elizabeth Wentz, Arizona State University. Funded by NSF (Grant #1660400).

***Sponsor Groups: Geography Faculty Development Alliance (GFDA), Careers and Professional Development, Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group, Harassment-Free AAG Initiative