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Geography Career Night

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Stuckert Career Center

Learn how a Geography degree becomes a career! Join a panel of alumni and local professionals for a night dedicated to kickstarting your career. This event takes place Wednesday, February 5, 2020 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at the Stuckert Career Center. The night includes resume help, professional headshots, and free food.

 

 

Panel

 

Jackie Monge Jackie joined Quantum Spatial, now part of NV5, in 2014. As a Project Manager, she is responsible for total project management including controlling budgets, subcontracting, and providing day-to-day communication with NV5’s geospatial data acquisition and processing teams. Jackie works closely with environmental and natural resource management clients at the federal government level. Some of these clients are the US Geological Survey, US Forest Service, and the US Department of Agriculture. Jackie’s GIS background and LiDAR (light detection and ranging) data expertise plays a critical role in her ability to deliver high-quality solutions to her clients, while also translating their needs into clear technical requirements for NV5 staff across the country and internationally. Before NV5, Jackie earned a master’s degree in Geography from University Kentucky, and a dual bachelor’s degree in Geography and Biology from Florida State University.
Benjamin Mills

I am currently a third-year law student at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. Prior to entering law school in 2017, I attended the University of Kentucky from 2015-2017, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Geography, minoring in Mapping and GIS. Before attending UK, I spent two years at the United States Military Academy at West Point (USMA) where my academic studies involved engineering and GIS. Outside of my academic career, I spend my time overseeing the small business I own, Kentucky Koffee Co. I also enjoy woodworking and backpacking. Following law school, I plan to return to Southeastern Kentucky to practice law. 

Chris Doerge

Chris Doerge is the GIS Manager for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG), where he creates GIS solutions, including software integrations, infrastructure design/maintenance, mapping, and data analysis.  Chris started with the LFUCG GIS Office in April of 2004 and has been involved with projects ranging from generating the 2008 AtLex (the official atlas of Lexington, Kentucky) to integrating GIS data with enterprise asset, 311, and 911 systems.  While proficient in map creation and data analysis, Chris currently focuses on creating solutions and applications that empower users to readily leverage location based information to make data-driven decision.  Chris’s role with the LFUCG has allowed him to work on a wide variety of topics spanning public safety/emergency management, snow removal, waste management, road paving, traffic engineering, planning, parks and recreation, building inspection, code enforcement, and historic preservation.

Laura Greenfield Laura graduated from UK Geography in 2016 with a passion for making maps, research, and analysis for community-oriented projects and non-profits. During her years at UK, she had the opportunity to explore this niche of geospatial work through projects where she partnered with organizations in Lexington to produce accessible analysis and develop tools. Geospatial technology and data visualization are fields that were developed for military and government projects and UK Geography helped Laura realize how these tools can be used instead at the grassroots level. Laura ran her own freelance geospatial business for two years after she graduated, contracting with nonprofits and local governments. Currently, she works with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a statewide grassroots social justice organization. With KFTC, she helps manage their database and uses data, research, and analysis to develop tools and resources to inform, educate, and support community organizers. 
Christine Smith Christine Smith is the Executive Director of Seedleaf. Trained academically as a geographer, she has been with Seedleaf since 2017. Her gardening experience is rooted in the sub-tropics of Florida where she grew up on her grandmother’s Kingston garden and menagerie filled with ginep, breadfruit, pomegranates, scotch bonnet peppers, fish, pigeons, chickens and stray dogs. She is most proud of her title as ‘Ambassador of Flowers’. She can be reached at christine@seedleaf.org