Rudo is a geographer and technologist with over a decade of experience supporting Indigenous communities in mapping and monitoring their lands, and building digital tools that increase community self-determination, access to land rights, and land management capabilities. His professional experience includes work with Indigenous and other local communities throughout the Amazon, Caribbean, North America, and East Africa, and steering the direction of several digital mapping tools and platforms. As Chief Programs Officer, Rudo works to develop, lead, and manage Cadasta’s program strategy and implementation.

Prior to joining Cadasta, Rudo worked as Senior Programmatic Lead at Digital Democracy and as Mapping and Programs Support Manager at the Amazon Conservation Team. He serves on the board of directors of Native Land Digital, the open-source stewards team of Terrastories, the circle of advisors for the Seeds of Wisdom Foundation, and he was the inaugural president of the International Society for Participatory Mapping. He holds a graduate degree in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate degree in international administration from the University of Miami.