Natalia da Silveira Arruda
Natalia da Silveira Arruda has been volunteering on OSM since 2014 while working with informal settlements in Colombia. She co-founded the YouthMappers' chapter GeoLab(U de A, Medellin/Colombia) in 2016 and was Regional Ambassador for Brazil and Colombia in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 (Everywhere She Maps). Natalia is a Ph.D. student with a major in Urban Planning at Arizona State University. Her research interests are focused on the relationship between the integration of land use and transportation planning, public participatory design, and neighborhood change.
Session
The Amazon Forest, its traditional peoples, and riverside communities represent an immense challenge for official cartography, due to scale and extension factors. This presentation aims to show the experiences of the Unificar Ações e Informações Geoespaciais (UAIGeo) chapter of the Brazilian YouthMappers in mapping riverside communities in the Amazon rainforest region, focusing on the city of Tefé and its islands. Due to its female leadership role and the goals of empowering young women in geospatial and technical skills, the presentation emphasizes the importance of engaging and encouraging female students to link mapping and female empowerment.