Georgina Sanchez

• Director of Research Engagement
• Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University

Georgina is the Director of Research Engagement at the Center for Geospatial Analytics, where she leads the Center’s engaged research initiatives, communication strategy, and high-impact partnerships. With a background in engineering, natural resources, and geospatial analytics, her research examines interactions between land and climate change and their impacts on people, nature, and infrastructure. Her work focuses on scenario-based modeling of urbanization, climate-induced migration, and human adaptation, assessing social and environmental impacts across scales and applying decision science to inform planning, adaptation, and conservation decisions.

She holds a Ph.D. in Forestry and Environmental Resources from NC State University, a master’s degree in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Costa Rica.