About
Mikel Maron works on open technology for the earth. He leads product development and sets organizational pace at Earth Genome. Previously, Mikel led corporate social responsibility at Mapbox, elevated open mapping in the federal government as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, and founded community mapping initiatives notably Map Kibera through Ground Truth Initiative. He has a long association with the OpenStreetMap project, founding Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in 2005 and serving many years on the OSM Foundation Board.
