Leah Saunders

Leah Saunders has been in the GIS field for more than 20 years. During that time, she’s worked on solutions and projects in various industries, including public safety, planning, land management and transportation. She’s also been able to work in many different technology areas of GIS, such as analysis, software development, cartography, enterprise management, scripting, automation and database design.

Saunders currently works as a GIS data analyst in City of Seattle Information Technology after spending more than six years at the Seattle Police Department as the lead GIS analyst. Before this role, she spent 15 years as an instructor, training coordinator and solution engineer at Esri.

Education

• British Columbia Institute of Technology - Advanced Diploma Engineering, Geographic Information Systems 2000 - 2001
• Queen's University - BA Honours, Geography 1996 - 2000