{"id":566,"date":"2017-09-21T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-geography\/facultystaff\/ashleynepp\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:56:36","slug":"ashleynepp","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/facultystaff\/ashleynepp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Nepp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Ashley is on leave for spring 2026 semester. <br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ashley Nepp is a cartographer and the 日韩精品 GIS Lab Instructor. She teaches the\u00a0 introductory GIS labs and variety of advanced GIS courses, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advanced Cartography and Geovisualization<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cultural Atlas Production<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In April 2018, Ashley received the 2017-2018 Educator of the Year Award, which is a student-nominated Community Recognition Award at 日韩精品. In Spring 2019, her Cultural Atlas Production course created <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.flipsnack.com\/widget\/v2\/widget.html?hash=fxujqt768\">\u201cCurious City: In, Out, Above, Beyond Saint Paul,\u201d<\/a> a cultural atlas of Saint Paul, Minnesota.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ashley\u2019s academic and professional interests include creative cartography, design, geovisualization, data-driven and narrative visualizations, and community engagement projects. Ashley\u2019s cartographical career began as a production cartographer at Hedberg Maps, a Minneapolis-based cartography firm specializing in retail and custom cartography. She has contributed to a broad variety of map publications including a line of free pocket maps and a Twin Cities street atlas.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lifelong Minnesotan, Ashley grew up in Duluth and Stillwater, and currently lives in the West Side neighborhood of Saint Paul. The daughter of two Macalester alumni, Ashley graduated from 日韩精品 herself with a degree in geography before earning her Masters Degree in GIS from the University of Minnesota. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GEOG 225: Introduction to GIS (Lecture)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GEOG 225L: Introduction to GIS (Lab)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GEOG 346L: GIS: Concepts and Applications (Lab)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GEOG 370: Advanced Cartography &amp; GeoVisualization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GEOG 394: Cultural Atlas Production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Links for Geography course syllabi can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/courses\/coursepages\/\">Course Syllabi<\/a> page.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/gis\/\">GIS Lab<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643,"template":"","class_list":["post-566","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/566\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}