Molly Burhans

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Molly Burhans (born 1989) is an American cartographer, data scientist, and environmental activist. She is the founder of GoodLands, an organization which is mobilizing the Catholic Church to use its land for environmental and social justice purposes.[1][2][3][4][5] She was awarded Young Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2019.[6][7] She is also a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in the class of 2021. [8]

Early life[]

Burhans was born in New York City to Debra, a professor of computer science, and William, a researcher in molecular oncology, who died in 2019.[9] Although she attended church as an adolescent, she did not become a practising Catholic until she was pursuing an undergraduate degree. While visiting a monastery in northwestern Pennsylvania during a weeklong service trip, she observed that the monastery lacked comprehensive land management plans, and began researching the ways that improved land management of worldwide Catholic landholdings could aid environmentalism.[2]

Education[]

In 2015, Burhans received a Master's Degree in Ecological Design from the Conway School, where she was a Sustainable Communities Initiative Fellow,[10] and an undergraduate liberal arts degree from Canisius College.[11] She became increasingly interested in the environmental possibilities of mapping and ecologically activating the Catholic Church's global landholdings. She spent time at the GIS software company Esri as a visiting researcher and received a grant from them. Her company, GoodLands, now uses a variety of mapping, planning, and design technologies.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ Saint Thomas More Chapel and Center at Yale. "Molly Burhans: Mapping the Roman Catholic Church". stm.yale.edu.
  2. ^ a b Owen, David. "How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change". The New Yorker.
  3. ^ Staff, Lisa Wangsness Globe; August 2; 2017; Comments, 11:02 a m Email to a Friend Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPrint this Article View. "This woman is trying to map the global Catholic Church - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-05-22.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Ashoka. "Can This Lay Woman Transform The Way The Catholic Church Manages Its Land?". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  5. ^ "Can high-tech maps help the church and save the planet?". America Magazine. 2019-01-11. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  6. ^ "Molly Burhans". Young Champions of the Earth - UN Environment Program.
  7. ^ "U.N. honors Catholic activist using data to fight climate change". Crux. 2019-10-08. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  8. ^ "Molly Burhand Awardee 2021". 2021.
  9. ^ Owen, David (February 1, 2021). "How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  10. ^ "Cartography, Environmentalism, and Climate Change: Meet Molly Burhans '15". The Conway School. February 3, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  11. ^ "Griffs Under 40: Molly A. Berhans '14". Canisius College. July 18, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  12. ^ "Bringing Digital Transformation to the Catholic Church". Esri. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2021-02-20.


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