Andrew Bernish

Mr. Bernish is a Transportation Planner and GIS Specialist with the KFH Group and currently is assigned to Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT). His cartography has been recognized with a Special Achievement in GIS award by Esri in 2019 and as a winner in the first annual ArcGIS for Adobe Creative Cloud maps competition in 2020. Andrew has been on

the faculty with the George Washington University’s Graduate Sustainable Urban Planning Department for over a decade. In this role, he teaches a Principles in Sustainable Urban Planning course, 2 GIS courses to graduate planning students, and has coled international planning studio courses in South Korea and Bangladesh. Andrew also teaches Planning Technology, a graduate-level course focusing on GIS, at the University of Maryland Community Planning Program (College Park). He serves as the Faculty Representative to the National Capital Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) and the webmaster for the Maryland Chapter of the APA. Andrew served in the United States Peace Corps in the Education and Community Resource Program in South Africa.