Liza Goldberg

Liza Goldberg, from Columbia, Maryland, is pursuing a PhD in earth system science at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. She received a bachelor’s degree in earth systems at Stanford University and a master’s degree in climate change and planetary health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Liza pairs satellite remote sensing and qualitative analysis to build climate change resilience in settings of poverty and humanitarian emergency, especially across South Asia. She has worked as an earth scientist at NASA since age 14 and has presented her published research worldwide. As a National Geographic Explorer, Liza founded and directs a global initiative to build remote sensing capacity in low-resource institutions across climate front lines. She leads an international team leveraging space technology to monitor the Rohingya refugee crisis and preserve multigenerational refugee histories. Liza is a Marshall Scholar, a Google Developer Expert, and a Sigma Squared Fellow.