Ryan Elizabeth Bowe, GISP works for Photo Science, a Quantum Spatial Company, in Lexington, Kentucky.  She has a passion for metadata and she has created tens of thousands of metadata files for geospatial datasets, some of which she acquired, edited, documented and delivered to clients.  Co-author of “Avoiding Last Minute Metadata Misery” in ArcNews Summer 2012, she stays active in her profession as a URISA Vanguard Cabinet Steering Committee member; a Young Professional Committee member of ASPRS; and a GIS Certification Institute’s Geographic Information System Professional application reviewer.  In November 2013, she received URISA’s Young Professional of the Year award.