Marena Smith
Interim Marketing Director at Mapbox
Kailua, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarena Smith is an Interim Marketing Director at Mapbox with eight years of experience translating complex location products into clear, compelling developer-facing content and campaigns. She blends product marketing, communications, and design to shape Mapbox’s brand, manage the website, and run virtual events, webinars, and learning resources that help developers adopt location technology. Marena’s background in participatory mapping, natural resource management, and legal empowerment informs her focus on social and environmental impact—she’s built partnerships and supported nonprofit and humanitarian projects across Africa, Asia, and Indigenous nations in Canada. Comfortable working directly with customers and communities, she turns technical features into benefit-led storytelling and has led programs that connect skilled volunteers with real-world mapping needs. Based in Kailua, Hawaii, she brings uncommon field experience—from facilitating land-use planning workshops to launching mapping pilots—into product storytelling and impact partnerships.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc[Env], Environmental Economics and Policy, With Distinction [Dean's Honours List], B.Sc[Env], Environmental Economics and Policy, With Distinction [Dean's Honours List] at University of GuelphInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Halifax Grammar SchoolMaster's of Resource Management, Planning, Master's of Resource Management, Planning at Simon Fraser University
French
Github Skills (37)
tiles10
mapbox-gl-js10
spatial10
arcgis-js-api10
mapbox-gl9
javascript9
webgl9
openstreetmap9
python9
geojson9
makers9
vector-tiles9
3d9
vector9
maps9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Geo-Corps/otter_map
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Creating a new map for the River Otter Ecology Project!
Contributions:46 commits, 5 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 5 months
ecologyottermapriver
marenab/community-days
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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