Award-winning cartographer Sarah Bell has been a professional mapmaker for more than a decade. She began at Esri in 2013 as a cartographer and datavisualization designer, and she is currently the lead product engineer for ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud.

Sarah's career began with the National Park Service in 2008 when she mapped climbing stories of Mount Rainier while completing her post-baccalaureate certificate in GIS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining Esri, Sarah was a cartographer in Bellingham, WA, and also worked at Western Washington University's Resilience Institute while earning her M.S. in geography.

Sarah enjoys combining her two passions of cartography and rock climbing by hand-drawing maps of the mountainous landscapes in which she climbs. She also frequently publishes tutorials on mapmaking. You can connect with her on Twitter and Instagram @sarahbellmaps, and by visiting her website, http: //www.sarahbellmaps.com. Sarah lives in the Pacific Northwest with her partner, Joseph Ferrare, and old puppy, Jasper.