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

Louisa Diggs

Director of Operations

Michelle Roby

Developer Advocate

Jed Sundwall

Executive Director

Radiant Earth Board of Directors

Jessica Seddon

Senior Fellow
Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

Amy Pitelka

Board Secretary
Partner
Barker Pitelka PLLC

Mala Kumar

Board Treasurer
Interim Executive Director
Humane Intelligence

Nicole Alexiev

Vice President
National Geographic Society

Jeff Revoy

CEO/President
Talis Ventures

Gina Trapani

Board Chair
Independent

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 Geo 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

Matthew Hanson

Director of Aerospace
Element 84

Chris Holmes

Product Architect
Planet

Max Jones

Cloud Engineer
Development Seed

Stephanie May

Founder
Geocentric Minds

Dr. Brianna R. Pagán

Deputy Manager
NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center

Amy Rose

Technical Director
Overture Maps Foundation

Qiusheng Wu

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Zhuangfang NaNa Yi

Principal Machine Learning Scientist
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