Emily Nilson
Founder And Luxury Travel Advisor at Nilson Signature Travel
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Nilson is a founder and luxury travel advisor who leverages eight years of product management experience to design immersive, detail-driven journeys for busy professionals. After leading major geospatial and open-data products at Esri and the World Resources Institute, she applies user research, stakeholder management, and a strategist’s rigor to remove friction from travel planning. Her specialty is nature-forward, culturally rich, and restorative trips—including expedition-style and solo adventures—rooted in firsthand experience from 52 countries and long-term living in multiple European countries. As an affiliate of Gifted Travel Network and Virtuoso connections, she pairs insider access with personal relationships that elevate ordinary itineraries into transformative experiences. Notably, her background in building collaborative, data-driven platforms informs a systems-minded approach to logistics and risk management, letting clients simply show up and be present.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Product Management, Product Management at General AssemblyBachelor's Degree, Accounting, Bachelor's Degree, Accounting at Bentley UniversityMaster’s Degree, Erasmus Mundus Masters, Master’s Degree, Erasmus Mundus Masters at MESPOM - Joint Masters Programme in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
planet10
migration9
datasets9
water9
climate-change9
react8
nextjs7
typescript7
visualize5
collaboration4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emily-nilson/prep-metadata-edits
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
emily-nilson/prep-app
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
The Climate Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (C-PREP) is a public-private collaboration whose mission is to help planners, investors, and resource managers around the globe rapidly assess and incorporate climate risks into their decisions by enhancing access to the best available data, and insights on climate change.
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
globedecisionsplannersclimatepreparedness
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