Faculty

Profile

Stephen Metts (M.A. Clark University) possesses over eight years of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and planning experience in both urban and regional contexts. He is the founding principal of Geospex, a GIS consultancy specializing in cartographic design, spatial analysis and mapping applications. He has worked with a diverse group of organizations, firms and city agencies ranging internationally with Engineers Without Borders to domestically with New York City’s planning department (NYCDCP) and housing authority (NYCHA). Metts was a founding Co-Director of OnRamp Arts, an award-winning non-profit digital arts organization fostering collaborative projects with underserved communities, architects and artists in Los Angeles. As an adjunct faculty within the Graduate Program in International Affairs, he teaches a hands-on approach to geospatial technologies for international crisis, development and the environment. He has also taught and developed GIS-related curriculum at Parsons the New School for Design, LaGuardia College and Clark University.