#  Gillian Elliott, MA 

Project Coordinator, Signal Program

 

 

 



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 Gillian Elliott is a GIS analyst, environmentalist, and human rights advocate. After completing her bachelor’s degree with a double major in anthropology and environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, she went on to gain two years of hands-on experience with ArcGIS in her role as a technical support analyst at Esri. Most recently, she received her master’s degree in Austria from the Vienna Master in Applied Human Rights, an interdisciplinary MA program hosted at the University of Applied Arts (Vienna). Here, she wrote her master’s thesis on sea-level rise and potential (forced) migration while connecting it to the international human rights legal framework. Her methods included a spatial analysis in a local setting to identify which homes, and by extension how many people, will likely be directly impacted by projected sea-level rise by 2050 and 2100. Gillian is interested in applications of geospatial methods to human rights issues, including humanitarian crises. Currently she works as the Research Project Coordinator for the Signal Program at HHI, a program which aims to make it easier for frontline organizations to leverage geospatial tools in their work towards preventing conflict and building peace.



 

 

 





 

 

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- ## Research Program
    
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