Board Members
Learn more about the governing body which stewards the GIS Colorado organization.
Strategic Plan
What is the big overall strategic plan for the organization? Find out more about where GIS Colorado is going in the future.
BYLAWS
Learn more about the GIS Colorado’s bylaws. and how they guide the organization.
Who we are
GIS Colorado provides geospatial professionals with a collaborative environment for the support and exchange of GIS information, resources, and technology.
GIS Education and networking
GIS experts and educators will keep their skills up-to-date by participating in training, educational events, and networking opportunities around the state of Colorado and beyond. Our user-based offerings and resources cover specific technologies professionals need to know in order to progress in their careers, including support of GISP certification.
reinvesting in the community
Over 80% of funding is reinvested into the community as scholarships, low-cost training and free events. Become a member to invest in your own career as well as the up-and-coming GIS community of the future. Join today and make GIS Colorado your geospatial connection.
GIS Colorado Board of
Directors
Board members make it possible for GIS Colorado to continue to enrich professionals and so much more.
Voting Board Members
2023 Officers
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Luke Kaim Thelen, Chair, (2023-2024 finishing N. Viau’s term)
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Peter Horgan, (2022 to 2025),
Co Chair, Events
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David (Barney) Barnett, (2022 to 2025) Treasurer
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Stefanie (Stef) Von Flue, Secretary (2023-2025 finishing for M Crocker’s term)
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Lindsey Danforth, (2021 to 2024 finishing S. Rollins’s term) Website
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Anna Riling, (2021-2024) Mapping Contest Coordinator
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Genie Hays, (2023-2026) National Geodetic Society RM Rep
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Catherine Hoemke, (2023-2026) Website and Communcations
• Nicole Pepper, (2023-2026) Social Media
Committee Chairs
Scholarship Committee – Rachel Pierstorff, Chair
Training Committee – Nickolas Viau, Co-Chair
The GIS Colorado Board
GIS Colorado is a non-profit organization which provides geospatial professionals with a collaborative environment for the support and exchange of GIS information, resources, and technology.
GIS experts and educators will keep their skills up-to-date by participating in training, educational events, and networking opportunities around the state of the Colorado and beyond. Our user-based offerings and resources cover specific technologies professionals need to know in order to progress in their careers, including support of GIS Professional certification.
Over 80% of funding is reinvested into the community as scholarships, low-cost training, and free events. Become a member to invest in your own career as well as the up-and coming GIS community of the future. Sponsor GIS Colorado as an organization and increase your reach into the Colorado GIS professional community. Join the GISCO Board and guide how we serve the community with other like-minded individuals. Join us and make GIS Colorado your geospatial connection.
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is an activity used to set priorities and focus energy and resources for an organization. The effort produces fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, who it serves, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future. Effective strategic planning articulates not only where an organization is going and the actions needed to make progress, but also how it will know if it is successful. The result of the effort is a strategic plan used to communicate the organizations goals, the actions needed to achieve those goals and all of the other critical elements developed during the planning exercise.
The GIS Colorado Board developed a strategic plan in 2021 to document the vision, mission, and goals of the organization. The Plan also includes key objectives to accomplish the goals. Each year the GIS Colorado Board reviews the Plan and develops concrete actions that moves GIS Colorado toward our goals and objectives.
GIS Colorado Bylaws
The GIS Colorado organization is guided and governed by its bylaws. All in coming and returning board members must read, understand and follow the bylaws to be in good standing.
