This fall, 2017 alumnus Joanna Sanchez was a featured presenter at the three-day Texas GIS Forum, where she spoke about geographic information systems (GIS) and its ability to inform and provide context for educational questions. Sanchez, who earned her Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy in 2017, is an educational policy researcher at Howard University. She is a previous scholarship recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship Association and Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and in 2016 was named an Archer Fellow and completed an internship at the White House for first-generation Latino students.
The Texas GIS Forum is hosted by the Texas Natural Resources Information System.