Stephanie May

I want to make it easier to think and communicate spatially through maps. I spent a decade building cartographic systems at Apple, Meta, and Stamen. Now I teach, write tools, and contribute to the open-source projects that bring together cartographic design and engineering without a platform or a big-company budget.

I teach GIS fundamentals in Esri's enterprise stack and write curricula to give students a credible bridge to the open-source and cloud-native side of the industry, so they can understand both. Beyond teaching, I build open tools that close gaps in the web cartography stack, and I serve on the boards of MapLibre, CNG, CaGIS, and CUGOS.