With over two decades of geospatial expertise, Miriam Olivares, GISP, leads the GIS support services at Yale University, instructing and advising on geospatial applications to promote cutting-edge teaching and research. Her interdisciplinary collaborations, scholarly, and consulting work touch upon geospatial data management, GIScience, supply chain, natural hazards, and marine conservation. Olivares' geospatial service includes membership in the Leventhal Map & Education Center's Board of Review at the Boston Public Library, the Advisory Board of the Academic Network of the United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM): Americas, and Connecticut GIO's GIS Strategic Plan and GIS Clearinghouse Workgroups. She co-founded and co-chairs GIS LATAM and served as a director on the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science board.