Molly Burhans (born 1989) is an American cartographer, data scientist, and environmental activist. She is the founder of GoodLands, an organization which aims to mobilize the Catholic Church to use its land for environmental and social justice purposes. Burhans was the Chief Cartographer for the first unified digital global map of the Catholic Church in history, which was premiered in the Vatican in 2016. She has further led the development of global Catholic analyses, such as the Church's carbon footprint and conservation potential. She was awarded Young Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2019. She is one of Encyclopædia Britannica's 2022 20 Under 40 Young Shapers of the Future in category of academia and ideas. In 2021 the Sierra Club honored Burhans with their EarthCare Award, previously awarded to the likes of Wangari Maathai and Sir David Attenborough. In 2018 she was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship for her innovations in applying new technology to respond to climate change. She was also a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in the class of 2021.
