About Radiant Earth
Radiant Earth is a 501(c)(3) non-profit working to increase shared understanding of our world through initiatives that make data easier to access and use.
The future of our species depends on our ability to develop sustainable methods of sharing data with one another. Shared access to data allows humans to develop a fact-based and shared understanding of our world, which is necessary for us to collaboratively address global challenges.
Expanding access to data is necessary to empower more people to perform scientific research, reduce the cost of research and product development, enable reproducibility of research, and foster collaboration among institutions.
Our vision is a world in which shared data is used to improve decision making at all levels of society.
Please visit our homepage and blog to learn more about our current initiatives.
We also provide fiscal sponsorship and support services to initiatives aligned with our mission, including:
- Convenings of data practitioners
- Projects that produce novel shared data products
Our team
Fractional CTO of Source Cooperative
Director of Operations
Director of Cloud-Native Geospatial
Executive Director
Ombud
Staff Historian
Technology Fellow
Technology Fellow
Data Policy Fellow
Radiant Earth Board of Directors
Nicole Alexiev
Board Secretary
Vice President
National Geographic Society
David X. Cohen
Writer, Executive Producer
Futurama
Cassie Ely
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Spark Climate Solutions
Mala Kumar
Board Treasurer
Interim Executive Director
Humane Intelligence
Jeff Revoy
CEO/President
Talis Ventures
Jessica Seddon
Board Chair
Senior Fellow
Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
Jed Sundwall
Executive Director
Radiant Earth
Source Cooperative Advisory Board
Denice Ross
Senior Fellow
Federation of American Scientists & Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
Fernando Pérez
Faculty Director
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Josh Peek
Head of Data Science Mission Office
Space Telescope Science Institute
Marshall Moutenot
CEO
Upstream Tech & Founder, dynamical.org
Millie Chapman
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy
ETH Zürich
Drew Breunig
Technical Advisor
at large
Carl Boettiger
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Anna Greenwood
Neuroscientist
at large
Eli Fenichel
Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Yale School of the Environment
Mark Otterlee
Senior Director of Engineering
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum Editorial Board
Ryan Abernathy
CEO
Earthmover
Dana Bauer
Geographer-at-large
Freelance
Tyler Erickson
Founder
VorGeo
Matt Forrest
Director of Customer Engineering & Product Led Growth
Wherobots
Brian Freitag
Research Computer Scientist
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Office of Data Science and Informatics
Matthew Hanson
Director of Aerospace
Element 84
Chris Holmes
Product Architect
Planet
Max Jones
Cloud Engineer
Development Seed
Stephanie May
Founder
Geocentric Minds
Amy Rose
Technical Director
Overture Maps Foundation
Julia Wagemann
Co-Founder
thriveGEO
Qiusheng Wu
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Julia Wagemann
Co-Founder
thriveGEO