Jennifer Hackett started her GIS consulting business, Manastash Mapping, in 2009 with the goal of helping people share information about their communities. She has an MS in Resource Management from Central Washington University where she has taught GIS. In her previous life, she spent 16 years with the Defense Department finding creative ways to use available data to answer national intelligence needs. For the Washington Hometown project she draws on her skills in GIS, data mining, and resource management to pull recreation data from many sources into a single dataset that can be used for maps, apps and analysis.