Mapping Patterns, Revealing History, and
Delivering Strategic Clarity.

Dionne Blanks is a New Orleans native, Tuskegee University HBCU alumna, and founder of Creole Mad Scientist LLC. She holds a Master of Science in Environmental Science with a concentration in Remote Sensing and brings over eight years of experience across federal intelligence, NASA Earth observation science, and environmental consulting.

An environmental scientist and remote sensing analyst by training, Dionne began her federal career as a NASA DEVELOP Project Lead. Applying satellite-derived Earth observation data to environmental and community health questions across the American South and internationally, collaborating with USDA, NOAA, and the U.S. Forest Service, and briefing findings at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. She went on to serve as a Geospatial and Imagery Analyst at the Department of Defense, where her analytical work reached the Presidential Daily Brief and she resolved a decades-long Intelligence Community analytical challenge. That federal foundation, NASA science rigor combined with intelligence-grade spatial methodology, is the backbone of everything she builds today.

Dionne pioneered Civic Spatial Intelligence™ to bring that same methodology to the communities, causes, and fights that have never had access to this level of geospatial science. Her work spans geospatial boundary analysis, environmental justice mapping, Cancer Alley satellite documentation, community equity visualization, and civic accountability research. She has testified before the Louisiana Senate, produced a Louisiana legislative boundary analysis grounded in federal census methodology, built geospatial intelligence products for organizations and advocacy groups, and produced food access mapping for Washington DC's Wards 7 and 8 in partnership with community organizations working to end food inequity east of the Anacostia River. Her practice extends across the American South, the mid-Atlantic, and wherever the data points to a community that has been underserved, overlooked, or mapped over.

Whitney Plantation fieldwork

Creole Mad Scientist LLC is built on four pillars: civic geospatial strategy, environmental justice research and advocacy, city and community improvement through spatial science, and geospatial education for the next generation, particularly the youth of New Orleans, who deserve access to the same technology that has historically been reserved for federal agencies and well-resourced institutions. The maps already tell the truth. Creole Mad Scientist LLC exists to make sure the right people can read them.