About me
Keisha Chinn is the Environmental Information Program Manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and a focus on Environmental Studies and GIS. Keisha has worked for WSDOT since 2015, first within the Maintenance Operations Office as a GIS specialist and then helping to kick off one of the very first drone programs at WSDOT back in 2017. Later, a drone program was started within the Environmental Services Office in 2021. Her current role provides technical support to subject matter experts to track, monitor, and report on WSDOT projects that affect the environment by developing and using databases and web user interfaces, GPS field data collection, drone operations, and GIS analysis. She is one of the lead sUAS (small Unmanned Aircraft System) Coordinators for WSDOT and co-chair of the WAGISA Drone SIG.
