Vanessa Knoppke-Wetzel
Vanessa Knoppke-Wetzel is a Solution Engineer that supports nonprofits and global organizations in all of their organizational mapping needs. She has years of experience supporting organizational requirements small and large, including identifying long-term, strategic, operational geospatial plans that support multifaceted needs across an organization. This may include strategic planning, funding, marketing, operations, logistics for the business as well as geospatial analysis, visualization, and communication requirements for projects on the ground. Vanessa is also an award winning cartographer and is known for her expertise in map aesthetics over time, and what affects technological shifts has on design and product workflows; cartography and branding; mapping tools' UI/UX, product design, and user research; equity and inclusion; and accessibility design. Cartography also informed her expertise beyond the geospatial, informing her work in product and app builds, UI/UX, project management, and operational leadership.