Member Profile

James (Schappet) lives in the Skagit region of Cascadia and works at the intersection of technology, governance, and regenerative community building. His work focuses on building digital infrastructure and data systems that help communities understand place, coordinate action, and support bioregional collaboration. He is particularly interested in bioregional mapping, network visualization, and the development of tools that make relationships—between people, organizations, and landscapes—more visible and actionable. Through software development, spatial analysis, and civic technology, he explores how digital systems can strengthen local resilience, regenerative finance, and collaborative governance. Schappet is part of the growing community working to align culture, technology, and ecology in service of a thriving Cascadia bioregion.

My work focuses on building digital infrastructure that helps communities see and coordinate the relationships that shape a place. I develop software systems, data models, and mapping tools that make networks of people, organizations, resources, and landscapes more visible and navigable. I am particularly interested in bioregional mapping and the creation of shared data commons that allow communities to understand their social and ecological systems together. By combining spatial analysis, network visualization, and civic technology, I explore how digital tools can support collaborative governance, regenerative finance, and place-based decision making. Much of my work sits between technology and community practice—translating complex systems into tools that help people organize, collaborate, and take meaningful action within their bioregion.