Doing Good with Data: Visualizing Impact and Risk in FSC Certified Forests

Scot McQueen has more than 20 years of leadership experience planning, designing, integrating, and implementing large Information Technology (IT) systems for government agencies, commercial companies and non-governmental organizations. An accomplished corporate strategist, Scot has significant experience working with senior decision makers to find solutions for complex business and management challenges. 

Ultimately, Scot understands that building a community understanding around the problems to be solved and how they are to be solved is more important than the technology used. Scot has worked with a wide variety of natural resource organizations including the US Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, and the global commercial forest industry. He has travelled extensively and, pre-pandemic, hosted hiking and running groups in the Rio Negro region of Patagonia. 

He serves as a Board Member at the Capitol Land Trust and the World Forest ID. Currently, Scot is the Senior Technology Officer at the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) where his role is to help drive the adoption of technology within the forest certification process and develop deeper partnerships within the technology industry.

Sharon London is an experienced nonprofit leader in the environment and global realms with expertise in fundraising, strategic planning, project management, board development, facilitation, and communication. She currently helps protect the world’s forests as the Development Director at the Forest Stewardship Council, Investments & Partnerships. 

She has worked at a number of nonprofits including the National Wildlife Federation, EarthCorps, and Seattle Urban Nature, with roles ranging from Executive Director, to Director of Strategic Partnerships, to Director of Development. Sharon spent 4.5 years in Southeast Asia, both as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in a Northern Thai National Park, and in Laos, where she worked for the World Wildlife Fund as a Protected Area Manager. Sharon has a B.A. in Geography from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Geography from Oregon State University with a GIS/Forestry focus. 

She’s also a certified True Colors International personality assessment facilitator, a graduate of Leadership Tomorrow and the Global Leadership Forum, and currently the board President of Kavana in Seattle.

Ashley Monson is a Social Impact Program Manager at Tableau, where she leads Tableau Foundation’s gender equality portfolio. Ashley joined Tableau Foundation in 2015 and oversaw the company’s first full year of employee donation matching and community grantmaking. Within her role, Ashley also manages pro bono programs including Tableau Service Corps, a skilled volunteering platform that connects non-profits around the world with experts in data analytics.

Before joining Tableau, Ashley worked in the non-profit sector. She spent several years working for a foster care and social services agency. That work helped form her commitment to corporate philanthropy and community engagement.