Sarah did a great job updating our Hunger Heat Map, and she was instrumental in jump starting our GIS efforts which had fallen dormant. She helped us envision how to improve our maps, invested much time creating layers with the latest data, and brainstormed new ideas with us. Using her work as a starting point, our recently hired internal data specialist has now taken over day-to-day GIS work, and our data team will be releasing new maps with the latest data soon. Sarah played a key role in bridging the gap so that our data specialist could hit the ground running and not waste months of time starting from scratch. We are grateful that soon we will be able to release the 2018 maps to the public, and that internally we will be able to compare our outcomes for 2017 versus 2018. This project would have been greatly delayed without Sarah’s expertise and efforts.
Dan Shenk-Evans, Director of IT
Capital Area Food Bank, March 2019