Sophia Njeri Murage
Location: Kenya/Netherlands
Sophia is a solutions engineer who is passionate about applying technology to geography. She was a designer and had responsibility for overseeing the development of the 1st Kenyan Nano-satellite, and in 2017, was a speaker at the Young Africa Space Engineers Global panel discussion. She is a co-founder and technical lead at Women in GIS Kenya, a network for women in geospatial science and technology.
You can follow her work here:
Twitter: @MurageSophia & @WiGISKe
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/snmurage
GitHub: SophiaNM
Website: wigis.co.ke
Further reading
- Sophia Njeri Murage, Storymaps
- For the rural farmer, does big data raise more questions than answers?, Sophia Murage, Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, 12 April 2018
- How small acts became big movements towards inclusivity, Morgan Crowley, Medium, 5 March 2020
- In conversation with Women in GIS Kenya, Caroline Akoth, Group on Earth Observations, 8 June 2020
- Women Data Scientists Created GPS-Driven App to Help Kenya Keep Covid-19 Numbers Low, Jacksonville Free Press, 14 September 2020