Data-Pop Alliance
Bessie Schwarz is a co-founder and CEO of Floodbase, a leading flood mapping platform established in August 2014, which uses global satellites and advanced science to aid climate-vulnerable communities by providing near real-time flood monitoring and exposure analysis. In addition to this role, Schwarz serves as a Strategist at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication since 2012 and as a Research Affiliate at The Data Pop Alliance from 2014. Previous experience includes roles as Field Director at Environment Colorado, National Field Coordinator at Environment America, and Field Organizer at Green Corps. Bessie Schwarz holds a Master's Degree in Science from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Environmental Studies from Carleton College.
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Data-Pop Alliance
Data-Pop Alliance is a collaborative laboratory of researchers, experts, practitioners, policymakers, and activists created in 2013 out of the MIT Media Lab, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). We aim to change the world with data through our three pillars of work: diagnosing local realities andhuman problems with data and AI; mobilizing capacities, communities, and ideas towards more data literate societies; and, ultimately, transforming the systems and processes that underpin our societies and countries.