About
Leah Fulton (she/they) is the Founder and Principal Cartographer at Salt Maps & Design.
Leah is an early career professional with a passion for community planning, coastal geography, and cartography. Leah grew up in Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki, (Halifax, Nova Scotia) on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People, and comes from French-Canadian and Scottish ancestry. She now resides on the traditional territory of the lÉ™k̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ peoples of the Coast Salish Nation (Victoria, British Columbia).
Her training comes from a combination of the Bachelor of Community Design, Honours in Urban Design and Planning, complemented by a Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and a Master of Marine Management at Dalhousie University. Following my Master's, she applied her geospatial expertise to a wide array of projects as a contracted employee, spanning conservation and planning across both land and sea in government, non-governmental organizations, and academic sectors.​
​Now enrolled as a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, they aim to combine their experience as a coastal planner and cartographer to research how participatory approaches in contemporary cartographic representations of the coastal environment can improve youth engagement.
