Coffee & Geography 2x01 Lauren Sinclair & Surya Panyam (USA)

Coffee & Geography returns for a second season, kicking off with Kit chatting to Lauren Sinclair and Surya Panyam over a masala chai and Coava coffee, chatting about mapathons, the student-teacher relationship, butchering chickens, amongst other things! Lauren Sinclair is a Where's Waldo and Carmen SanDiego aficionado who teaches GIS (digital mapping) to middle schoolers in Portland, Oregon in the U.S. She also teaches environmental science using GIS and helps other teachers at her school bring GeoInquiries into their classrooms. In her spare time, she works with Esri as a teacher-consultant. Surya Panyam is sophomore at Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon. He started Mapathon club at his high school, which is a club aimed to help map areas experiencing natural disasters. In his free time, He loves to play tennis, chess, and the drums. Some links to things mentioned in the chat: - Missing maps (https://www.missingmaps.org/) - Youth Mapathon: Empathy & Empowerment (https://youtu.be/cYvCDC341-w) - Geogramblings blog on student leadership (https://geogramblings.com/2020/11/26/students-as-partners-not-just-stakeholders/) Expand your Geography community by connecting with Lauren via Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/MrsSinclairMaps ==About Coffee & Geography== The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know. If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink! Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/wemcouncil! Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/) ==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation== Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod. Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform. Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley Switch your energy provider to Good Energy via this link: (check back soon!) and sign up to Clim8 via https://bit.ly/CoffeeGeog-Clim8 to invest money ethically. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.* *Good Energy and Clim8 are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable. Your choice to invest money through Clim8 doesn’t come without risk, so make sure you make an informed decision to sign up.