Board of Directors
Anne Hale Miglarese
Board Chair Chief Executive Officer Radiant Earth Foundation
Jerry Johnston
Specialist Leader Location Intelligence Practice Deloitte
Sanjay Kumar
Chief Executive Officer Geospatial Media & Communications
Peter Rabley
Venture Partner Omidyar Network
Margie Sullivan
Chief Executive Officer Sullivan Strategy
Kass Green
President Kass Green & Associates
Our team
About Anne Hale Miglarese
Chief Executive Officer
Anne Hale Miglarese, founding CEO of Radiant Earth Foundation, is committed to providing geospatial analytics using imagery and mapping data to empower informed decision-making to help solve the developing world’s greatest social, economic and environmental challenges. Anne has extensive government and private sector experience in Geospatial technologies. Prior to launching Radiant Earth Foundation in Aug. 2016, she served as President and CEO of Fugro Earth Data, as President and CEO of PlanetiQ and a Principal Director at Booz Allen Hamilton. Anne has also worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the SC Water Resources Commission and the SC Department of Natural Resources.
About Hamed Alemohammad
Chief Data Scientist
Hamed Alemohammad is passionate about applications of machine learning in geospatial analytics and its possibilities to provide developing countries with tools to monitor their progress toward sustainable development goals. Hamed has extensive expertise in remote sensing and imagery techniques particularly in developing new algorithms for multi-spectral satellite and airborne based observations. He also serves as an elected member of the American Geophysical Union’s technical committee on remote sensing. Prior to joining Radiant Earth Foundation in Sep. 2017, he spent one year at Columbia University and two years at MIT as a postdoctoral research scientist. Hamed received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT in 2014.
About Louisa Nakanuku-Diggs
Marketing and Communications Manager
Louisa Nakanuku-Diggs is enthusiastic about storytelling and visualization and their possibilities to transform complex topics into simple, yet engaging and effective narratives. Louisa has helped governments, development organizations and NGOs focusing on environmental issues in Africa with approaches to convert data to information, and information to knowledge and attitudinal changes. Before joining Radiant Earth Foundation, she served as an international communication consultant, working with conservation organizations to develop behavior change strategies, incorporating digital communications channels and generating science information products for laymen.
About Yonah Bromberg Gaber
Geospatial Data Specialist
Yonah Bromberg Gaber is excited about leveraging user-centered design for the global development community by connecting policy-makers and field-based practitioners with tools to make their work more effective. Yonah helps users by creating tutorials, transforming feedback into platform development, and building geospatial data libraries. He previously served as a technology intern for Radiant Earth Foundation while studying at the George Washington University. Yonah has also interned with the Social Feed Manager team at GW Libraries, developing better user experiences with archiving social media data.
About Alando Ballantyne
Geospatial Machine Learning Engineer
Prior to Radiant Earth Foundation, Alando Ballantyne spent three years as a design researcher, policy analyst, and open source software developer focused on global poverty. Working with refugee camps in Haiti and Uganda, Alando prototyped and built software intended to improve the livelihoods of those living on less than one dollar per day. Before switching to humanitarian work, Alando was part of the initial team that created the startup, Soylent. He has a BA in Romance Languages and BS in Journalism from the University of Oregon. Alando writes about machine learning, global poverty and other topics that interest him at https://alan.do.
About Kevin Booth
Geospatial Developer
Kevin Booth is passionate about using technology to leave a positive impact on the world. Kevin is the lead maintainer of the STAC QGIS plugin and is an active contributor to various open-source projects. Before joining Radiant Earth Foundation, Kevin taught students GIS and Geoprogramming, wrote software for NASA's Orion Spacecraft program, and developed Android applications for Fortune 100 companies. Kevin received his B.S. in Geographic Information Science from Texas State University in 2018 and is working on his M.S. in Geography.
About Gracie Pearsall
Science and Technology Communications Intern
Gracie Pearsall is passionate about the geosciences. She is interested in how we can use effective science communication to encourage people to engage with environmental issues. As a Science and Communications Intern at Radiant Earth, she assists with social media management and outreach. Before joining the Radiant Earth team, she received a B.S. in Geology and Environmental Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served an AmeriCorps term in Nevada. She hopes to pursue an M.S. in Geology.
Fellows
Chris Holmes
Technology Fellow Planet Labs
Yang Chen
Technology Fellow Data61, CSIRO
Brookie Guzder-Williams
Technology Fellow Chief Data Science, World Resources Institute