Olivia Zhang is an undergraduate student at the University of Florida studying Geography and Data Science and pursuing a certificate in Geographic AI. Having grown up in coastal cities, she is passionate about leveraging geospatial data to better understand human-environment interactions in a changing climate.
As a CDLS Early-Career Fellow, Olivia is helping plan the GIS for Community Health program with Esperanza Community Housing, combining storytelling and geospatial data. She also works with trubel&co, a nonprofit organization that hosts workshops to teach high school students how to use GIS (geographic information systems) to map environmental justice in their communities.
Throughout all her work, she brings creativity and passion for exploring the world through data. She has created artworks with geospatial data to raise awareness of climate change. Olivia was featured in the Climate Storytelling 2075 Anthology with Over the Years, a digital artwork showing a timelapse of sea level rise in Florida.