Meet Susan Akinyi Ongoro
, Research Assistant and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technician at the National Museums of Kenya (NMK).
Susan is currently engaged as an archival assistant for the MAEASaM project where she is helping facilitate the retrieval of Kenyan archival archaeological site records housed at NMK and preparing them for entry into MAEASaM’s Arches database. Susan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and is now enrolled for a Master’s degree in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Nairobi. Besides spending much of her time in the NMK archaeological archives, Susan has an enduring passion for landscape analysis using the freely available software, QGIS.