I build and develop community-university partnerships through my leadership with the undergraduate and graduate GIS workshop experience. These community-university partnerships provide transformative learning opportunities for students who become the next cohort of engaged professionals, while enabling community partners to explore topics that further their mission and make important contributions to society.
If you are a community organization interested in partnership, please contact me at swithers@uw.edu.
Community Partners over recent years include (alphabetically):
- Audubon Washington
- Bainbridge Island Land Trust
- City of Pasco, WA Planning Department
- Commute Seattle
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
- Earth Economics
- Ecologists without Borders
- ERM
- Forterra, Seattle, WA
- Friends of the Farms, City of Bainbridge Island
- Hood River County, Oregon
- Got Green
- King County Archives
- King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks
- King County Noxious Weed Control Program
- King County Public Health
- Kitsap Conservation District, Kitsap County, WA
- Mangrove Action Project
- Mapillary
- MEDRIX
- Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
- The National Park Service
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- The Natural Capital Project
- The Nature Conservancy
- Northwest Justice Project
- Oregon State University
- Pronatura Noroeste A.C.
- Puget Sound Regional Council’s Growth Management Department
- Public Defender Association / Yes to Safe Consumption Sites
- Real Change
- Regional Open Space Strategy (ROSS)
- River Management Society
- San Juan County, WA
- Seattle City Light
- Share/Wheel and UW Public Health
- South King County Food Coalition
- Spokane Tribe of Indians, Spokane, WA
- Statewide Poverty Action Network
- Sustainable Fisheries Foundation
- Sustainable Seattle
- TOTAGO (Turn Off the App – Go Outside!)
- US Forest Service’s Green Cities Research Alliance, Pacific NW Research Station King County, WA
- USA Judo
- USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center
- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Capstone projects from the MGIS program (2013 – 2019) are available here.