Diana Mastracci

Diana is passionate about finding creative ways to maximize the impact of current technologies to empower social change initiatives among indigenous communities. She has co-designed, together with Indigenous youth, Elders, and scientists various innovative hackathons and citizen science projects at the interface of traditional and scientific knowledge. She has worked with Inupiaq whaling captains in the Alaskan Arctic all the way to Indigenous Shuar leaders from the Ecuadorian Amazon. She is the founder of Space4Innovation a consultancy firm that leverages space assets and open innovation to co-design culturally relevant solutions to the climate change crisis. She is a social anthropologist by training (MA in Social Anthropology and Russian) with a Masters in Science specializing in Remote Sensing and GIS from the University of Oxford. She has worked at the European Space Agency, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Oxford, The Citizen Cyberlab and was a visiting scholar at the Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University.