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 building global scale infrastructure for rendering maps. Now I work to make those capabilities available accessible to everyone.

I teach Cartography and GIS fundamentals at the University of Washington. Curricula are grounded in Esri's enterprise stack; I strive to give students solid fundamentals and a credible bridge to the open-source and cloud-native side of the industry as well.

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.