Courtney Clark

Courtney Clark is the Program Director of Everywhere She Maps for YouthMappers. She directs activities to address the underrepresentation of women in the geospatial community through a Leadership Fellowship for Women in Technology, professional development and internship opportunities for YouthMappers, a team of Everywhere She Maps Regional Ambassadors, and collaborative mapping campaigns aimed at creating geospatial data to gender equity. She also serves as Manager of Sponsored Projects for the American Geographical Society, where she supports US human geography teachers at the secondary level. She volunteers for the humanitarian OSM Community Working Group and the OSMF Membership Working Group.


OpenStreetMap username

CourtneyMClark


Sessions

07-09
15:00
60min
Ethical Mapping with and for People Living with Vulnerability
Courtney Clark

Today’s world of geospatial technology and data is evolving quickly. However, the lives of those living with vulnerability may not be improving, yet are shaped by new technologies. The communities who stand to benefit most from improving technologies, including mapping, are instead increasingly left out of key conversations, opportunities, and developments that center around their lives and their data. This panel will discuss ethical issues around mapping with and for communities living in vulnerability.

The panalists are Edoardo Neerhut, Paromita Basak, Innocent Maholi, Rosario Casanova, Erica Hagen

Community and Foundation
Track 2 - Panels and Workshops
07-09
17:15
60min
Why Does Sexism within OpenStreetMap Matter?
Courtney Clark, Airin Akter

Experts estimate that only 2-5% of OSM contributors are women. Panelists will discuss how structural inequalities and individual instances of sexist and misogynistic language and behavior present significant barriers to women’s participation, along with steps that organizations, boards, communities, and individuals can take to be anti-sexist members of the OSM ecosystem. This panel is organized by the Everywhere She Maps program of YouthMappers.

The panelists are Hanna Krüger, Chomba Chishala, Dara Carney-Nedelman, Marcela Zeballos

Community and Foundation
Track 2 - Panels and Workshops