Cheryl Knott
Assistant Director at BNIA & Instructor at UMBC
- Role
- Part-time Instructor at University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cheryl Knott
I am the Assistant Director for the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute. Since 2007, I have worked to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of community indicators that describe the quality of life for Baltimore City communities. I coordinate with staff and external data-creating agencies to produce customized statistical and research reports and evaluations that examine neighborhood-level trends on socio-economic characteristics, crime and safety, public health, housing and community development, educational achievement, and sustainability.I also provide training to the public on using data resources, community asset mapping, evidence-based practices, and communicating data. I am involved in coordinating Baltimore Data Day, an annual event that brings together a diverse audience to talk about data and resources in the city. I am a proponent of data democratization and have a strong interest in making data open and usable to the public.Prior to my arrival at BNIA-JFI in 2007, I studied at UMBC, receiving my Bachelor’s degree in Geography & Environmental Systems and a certification in Cartography in 2007 and a Master’s degree in Applied Sociology in 2013. I completed a graduate certificate in Organizational Leadership from the University of Baltimore and graduated in Spring 2022. My research interests include the relationship between crime and the built environment including developing new quantitative measures for studying urban crime risk at the block level.In 2017 I was awarded the UB Staff Award for Extraordinary Public Service to the University and Greater Community for my work on communicating data and information. I recently served two terms as the Data and Resources Subcommittee Chair for the Maryland State Geographic Information Committee (MSGIC) and I am currently appointed to the Maryland Council on Open Data.Since Spring 2023, I have served as a part-time instructor within the Geography & Environmental Systems department at UMBC. I’ve taught courses in GIS, cartography, and methods for understanding complex human-environmental systems. I am also faculty in the graduate program in GIS, where I have developed and led courses on open spatial data and project capstones. It’s been my pleasure to work with students as they develop critical research and analytical skills using real world data.
Experience
Part-time Instructor
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Jan 2023 — Present
GES 383: Statistical and Thematic Cartography, Spring 2024, Spring 2026-GES 780: GIS Project Capstone, Fall 2024, Spring 2026-GES Public and Crowdsourced Spatial Data, Spring 2024, Fall 2025-GES 462/662: GIS and Human-Environmental Systems, Spring 2025-GES 386/686: Introduction to GIS, Spring 2023
Education
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Certificate, Cartography
2006 — 2007
University of Maryland Baltimore County
M.A., Applied Sociology
2008 — 2013
University of Maryland Baltimore County
B.A., Geography
2003 — 2007
University of Baltimore
Certificate, Organizational Leadership
Skills
- Research
- Arcmap
- Maps
- Geography
- Spss
- Cartography
- Geographic Information Systems (Gis)
- Geoprocessing
- Thematic Mapping
- Data Analysis
- Statistics
- Sas
- Geocoding
- Arcgis
- Gis
- Spatial Analysis
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