Rachel Franklin likes new data, old data, big data, and little data, especially when it’s spatial and especially when it’s deployed in response to new, old, big, and small societal challenges. She is Executive Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University, Visiting Professor in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University, and co-director of Imago, the Smart Data Research UK Imagery Data Service. Prior to Harvard and Newcastle, she was at Brown University, the American Association of Geographers (AAG), and the U.S. Census Bureau. She is a faculty affiliate in the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University and a visiting professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in Italy. Rachel’s primary research focus is in spatial inequality, especially the interplay between spatial analytics and demographic change, and she has published in many of the top journals in the field. She also highly values disciplinary community: she is current editor of Geographical Analysis and cross-disciplinary editor for the Annals of the AAG. For academic fun, she co-hosts the GlaD (Geography, Life and Data) podcast with Dani Arribas-Bel and Levi Wolf.