Originally from South Africa, Elvira has spent over a decade at the intersection of public health and geospatial science, conducting field work, supporting emergency responses, and building GIS capacity across Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East as part of her extensive work with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their global health partners.

She specializes in environmental and public health mapping, statistical data analysis, and cartographic storytelling, with expertise spanning the full research lifecycle: from study design and field data collection through analysis, visualization, and evaluation. Her technical toolkit includes ArcGIS, QGIS, Python, R, SAS, and Adobe Creative Suite, and she has particular experience making sense of data-scarce environments and complex, real-world datasets.

Now based in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Elvira co-founded ARTGLOBE to bring that same depth of expertise home — helping local nonprofits, health organizations, and communities use data to make better decisions.