Santa Pedone is from southern Italy where she studied philosophy and history. She moved to London in 2008, completing her MSc studies in environment and sustainable development at UCL in 2012. Since then, she has been working for organisations which aim to make urban planning more sustainable and inclusive. In the last few years, she has been working for Just Space and the Ubele Initiative as a project worker. She is a self-taught GIS mapper and passionate about participatory mapping