PROJECTS

Mapping for Environmental Justice

Arpan Somani

Mapping for Environmental Justice directly addresses inequitable data representation by training participants in GIS to map environmental justice concerns. By developing critical skills to analyze and present spatial data, youth advocates, organizers, and journalists learn to identify and challenge biases, combining quantitative and qualitative insights to build powerful narratives.

Through partnerships with libraries, community organizations, and journalism networks, the program creates an interactive, hands-on environment for developing advocacy tools. It ensures that participants are equipped to visualize and communicate local issues, becoming advocates and changemakers for environmental justice within their communities. And it creates a space for civic exchange between these three groups who represent different perspectives within local communities.