Diana Mastracci Sanchez

• Developed partnerships with key UN institutions, data providers, and Indigenous organizations
• Conceived and co-created the GEO Indigenous Summit, which brought together over 1000 participants from various Indigenous communities, UN agencies, and academic organizations
• Lead author of the GEO Indigenous Summit Report and the GEO Indigenous Alliance Report for the UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR), a United Nations flagship report on global disaster risk reduction efforts
• Conceptualized the GEO Indigenous Alliance COP26 side event and the Living Plane Symposium's first Indigenous scientific session
• Co-creating the GEO Indigenous Youth Ambassador Programme
• Conceived and led several international Indigenous hackathons involving more than 200 Indigenous youth and hackers
• Presented the GEO Indigenous Alliance at various international conferences such as the UN High-Level Political Business Forum, UN Food Summit, FOSS4G, etc.
• Developed a social media presence for the Alliance (promotional materials, social media account, website, etc.)
  

• Developed targeted communications messages, campaigns, content, and products tailored to specific target groups (writing, editing, graphic design, desktop publishing, photography, and basic video editing)
• Developed and implemented GEO's communications plan for various international events and outreach activities
• Facilitated the continuous flow of information in the GEO community between space agencies, data providers, private companies, and the scientific community
• Supported event promotion and coordination of key GEO events, and promoted relevant events across the GEO community

• Created and led the management and implementation of (G)EOhack19, a global series of hackathons by and for indigenous and under-represented youth in collaboration with Geoscience Australia for GEO Week 2019

• Conceptualized and led a project with the University of Oxford and the Inupiaq coastal community on future data dissemination and discovery trends in the Arctic.
• Designed and co-organized GEOSS/HACK, GEO's first hackathon based on real community needs for the United Nations SDGs in collaboration with GEO.
• Provided requirement specifications for the in-situ Ku and Ka-band radar altimeter (ISKRA). Conceptualized and led a citizen science project to validate Sentinel 5 data.

• Investigated innovative Earth Observations based approaches for Inupiaq subsistence hunters and scientists to better understand sea-ice dynamics.
• Planned and conducted six solo field trips in the Alaskan Arctic.
• Co-designed and managed all aspects of the implementation of a series of climate change resilience projects in collaboration with Inupiaq Whaling Captains and the North Slope Borough School District, in Anaktuvuk Pass, Wainwright, and Utqiagvik.
• Explored novel ways of predicting sea-ice break-off events using machine learning techniques and traditional knowledge, in collaboration with the Center for Data Driven Discovery at Caltech.
• Represented NASA at the Arctic Circle Assembly and among Inupiaq communities in the Alaskan Arctic.

• Investigated how ICT could be used by young Inupiaq hunters to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, in collaboration with UNITAR, CERN, University of Genève, UCL, and the University of Paris.
• Collected and analyzed user behavior through ethnography, surveys, field visits, semi-structured interviews, and live usability studies on the sea-ice.
• Designed and tested a new methodology to co-design software with indigenous communities.
• Advocated research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and in-person presentations.
• Built strategic partnerships with key authoritative data organizations such as NASA, NOAA, and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Developed a base map for a Cybercartographic Atlas for Inuit People in Nunavut to enhance their ability to adapt to climate change.

• Conducted research on subsistence use, ethnicity, and local ecological knowledge in the Russian Far East, Siberia, and Southeast Alaska.
• Conducted applied anthropological fieldwork and participatory mapping among the Nenets reindeer herders in the Russian Arctic.