Taylor Geospatial Career Guide Series featuring Ronda Schrenk of USGIF

This Taylor Geospatial Career Guide Series is a partnership between TGI and TechSTL, as part of STL TechWeek series from April 8–12, 2024.

STL TechWeek is 5 full days of disruptive and emerging technology, at over 30 venues across the St. Louis Metro. All events are free and open to the public. A full lineup for the week can be found here.

Taylor Geospatial Career Guide Series connects successful geospatial professionals with students and job seekers from across the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) consortium who are interested in geospatial or geospatial-adjacent careers. The featured speaker for this session is Ronda Schrenk, the Chief Executive Officer for the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.

Ronda leads the Foundation in its mission to promote the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and develop a stronger GEOINT community among government, industry, academia, professional organizations and individuals whose mission focus is the development and application of geospatial intelligence to address national security objectives. In this role, Ms. Schrenk sets the strategic direction for the Foundation to effectively enable each aspect of mission accomplishment. Previously serving as the Vice President of Programs of the Foundation, she led the content development for all events and programs, serving as the primary spokesperson for the Foundation.

Ms. Schrenk is a recognized leader in the field of Geospatial Intelligence and has been on the leading edge of the geospatial intelligence tradecraft for most of her career, including 25+ years in a variety of leadership and analytic positions at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), private industry, non-profit, and even academia.

Before joining USGIF, Ms. Schrenk was the Senior Fellow for Public-Private Partnerships at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA). She has served in a variety of analytic leadership positions at NGA, including Mission Requirements Manager of NGA’s Mission Talent Alignment office, Chief of the Counterterrorism Airborne Analysis Center, and Chief of the Time Dominant Operations Center, and while on a joint duty assignment to NSA, Deputy Chief of the International Affairs and Policy Office.