Education
After initial studies in Aerospace Engineering, and Industrial Design she completed her B.A. in Geography and a Certificate in Cartography in 1988 at California State University, Long Beach. After a year of working at Thomas Brothers Maps in Irvine, California, she entered the Geography graduate program at the University of Washington in Seattle where she received an M.A. in Geography in 1991, with a thesis on "Virtual Worlds Technology as an Interface to Geographic Information".
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