Women Who Drone

Sandrine Hecq is an aerial photographer who has been flying for over 5 years and lives in Perth Western Australia. She is a travel enthusiast that takes most of her content with a drone.

Anyone can tell right away by taking a look at her work that she has an avid love for oceans and capturing the world from an aerial point of view!

She is currently an entrepreneur that runs three businesses and flying drones is a huge hobby of hers.

Follow Sandrine on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook:

https://www.instagram.com/sandrinehecq/

https://www.youtube.com/c/SandrineHecqLifestyleEntrepreneur

https://twitter.com/sandrinevisuals

https://www.facebook.com/sandrine.hecq.9

Petra Leary, who is an award winning New Zealand born aerial photographer and Women Who Drone Brand Ambassador. As a world traveller, she hunts out unusual landscapes, captures them from unforeseen angles such as her signature bird’s eye angle from above, and manipulates and accentuates colours in post-production to create her final work.

Follow Petra Leary on Instagram and Twitter: 

https://www.instagram.com/petraleary/

https://twitter.com/petraleary

Ellie McCutcheon is a drone cinematographer specializing in storytelling techniques. Based out of Northern California, Ellie teaches at The UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and is a Brand Ambassador for Women Who Drone. She has shot footage for Netflix, The Washington Post, and NPR, among other notable clients.

In addition to film, Ellie flies drones for infrastructure inspection on electrical transmission lines. Her favorite projects take her deep into wild places, whether that's driving trucks deep into the forest for utilities work or filming desert moonscapes with a man in a spacesuit.

Ellie's newest frontier is drone mapping and utilizing 3D modelling to aid landowners in planning and designing for land projects on their properties.

Check out the article discussing which public lands can you fly over in the US:

https://fstoppers.com/aerial/making-heads-or-tails-flying-drone-over-us-public-lands-226124

Join us for a leadership panel discussion on the importance of building inclusive women-focused communities in male-dominated industries, with leaders Elena Buenrostro (WomenWhoDrone), Theodora Skeadas (Harvard W3D - Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development at Harvard University) and Nora Touré (Wi3D: Women in 3D Printing). ** Biographies ** Elena Buenrostro (Founder @Women Who Drone | Global Content Producer, Google Play | International Speaker) Elena Buenrostro is a Content Producer, Certified Drone pilot, International Speaker, Actress and Founder of Women Who Drone, an online platform and community that inspires, educates and empowers women and girls with drone technology. In addition to her work with Women Who Drone, Elena is also a part of the brand marketing team on Google Play developing content and social media strategies for global social channels, working with top gaming developers and marketing teams to execute global social and engagement content. Theodora Skeadas (President of Harvard W3D: Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development) Theodora Skeadas is a Public Policy Associate at Twitter, where she supports a range of policy projects on subjects including disinformation, counter-terrorism, content moderation, safety, public trust, interoperability, and child exploitation. She is also the Executive Director of Cambridge Local First, a non-profit that promotes a local economy community by educating the public and government about the significant environmental, economic, and cultural benefits of a strong local economy. Nora Toure (Founder @Women in 3D Printing | Director, Sales & Service Factory Operations @Fast Radius | TEDx Speaker) Nora Toure has been an additive manufacturing expert since 2010, particularly skilled at building strategy alliances and strong business relationships. She has  a deep understanding and experience of the manufacturing ecosystem with a passion for working at innovative companies driving social value through technology. Besides her career achievements, Nora founded the non-profit Women in 3D Printing in 2014 to promote women leaders in the additive manufacturing industry. She has grown the platform to 15,000+ members spanning 25 countries through 65 chapters.

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