Gillian Elliott is a GIS analyst, environmentalist, and human rights advocate. After completing her bachelor’s degree with a double major in anthropology and environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, she went on to gain two years of hands-on experience with ArcGIS in her role as a technical support analyst at Esri. Most recently, she received her master’s degree in Austria from the Vienna Master in Applied Human Rights, an…
Saira Khan is a researcher and geospatial analyst for two programs at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative: The Signal Program on Human Security and Technology and the Humanitarian Geoanalytics Research and Education Program (HumGeo). She primarily uses GIS and satellite imagery as tools to analyze damage as a result of conflict and disaster, population displacement, and monitor environmental variability in numerous humanitarian crises across sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, and Bangladesh. She further…
Erica L Nelson, MD, PhM, MAS is an Emergency Medicine physician who conducts research on the use of geospatial methods for public health and humanitarian response. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin with an PhM in International Peace Studies and Development, she worked as a researcher and policy consultant for organizations serving conflict-affected populations in Nepal, Indonesia, the Balkans, Palestine, Ethiopia, and Sudan. She completed her medical training at the…
Godfred (Kofi) Nyarko is the Research Program Manager for the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He also serves as a Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant for the Signal Program. Kofi has a diverse professional background. He served as the Country Director for Mercy Project Ghana where he fought daily to eradicate slavery from his homeland. Kofi helped liberate over 50 children and reunified them with their families.…
Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya is a conflict early warning expert with over twenty years of experience in atrocities prevention in several global hotspots. He is a practitioner of “third generation” citizen-based conflict early warning with notable academic work in the areas of conflict early warning, technology for non-violence, and religion and the arts for peace building. Over the years, Mads has developed several geospatial early warning tools that emphasize the need…