WASHINGTON, D.C. January 11, 2021—Cadasta Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Amy Regas as a new Director of the Board. Amy comes to Cadasta’s board with more than 25 years of experience working in international development on land tenure and property rights projects. Amy is the co-founder of PLACE, a non-profit building a mapping data trust to serve the public interest.
“We are thrilled to welcome Amy Regas to the Cadasta Board,” said Cadasta Board Chair Steven Weir, “Amy’s has deep knowledge of property rights issues and experience implementing large international projects. Her broad network and global partner connections in the sector will benefit Cadasta as we scale our projects and impact worldwide.”
Prior to co-founding PLACE, Amy was a Director on Omidyar Network’s property rights and geospatial team, where she employed grants and early stage investments to provide and protect people’s property rights through technology innovation and scalable service delivery models. Amy’s earlier career spanned over two decades designing, managing, and implementing projects in Latin America, Asia, and Africa for Chemonics International, Tetra Tech, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Amy received a post-graduate diploma in land management and informal settlement regularization from the Lincoln Land Institute and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies and an M.A. in international affairs from The George Washington University.
Commenting on Amy’s appointment, Cadasta’s Chief Executive Officer Amy Coughenour Betancourt said, “Amy has committed her career to helping marginalized populations to secure the fundamental protections that lead to a secure sense of place, identity and belonging. She understands both the complexity and critical need for secure land rights to achieve sustainable development objectives.”
Amy joins seven elected Board members and one observer. Together they provide strategic and policy direction to Cadasta as it works to advance global land and resource rights to build stronger, more sustainable communities.
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About Cadasta Foundation:
Founded in 2015, Cadasta Foundation develops and promotes the use of simple digital tools and technology to help partners efficiently document, analyze, store, and share critical land and resource rights information. By creating an accessible digital record of land, housing, and resource rights, we help empower individuals, organizations, communities, and governments with the information they need to make data-driven decisions and put vulnerable communities and their needs on the map.
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