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A New Opportunity to Dig Deep into Modern GIS Tools to Explore Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Hands-on Workshop
Join us for a key opportunity to dig deep into modern GIS tools, methods, and approaches to Explore Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in a face-to-face, hands-on setting. The opportunity will be a 4-day workshop, to be held from 7-10 August 2023 at the Central Pennsylvania's Community College's Gettysburg Campus. This is…
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Mapping Our Way Across The Digital Divide!
As part of our ongoing commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within the geospatial community, EDGE is proud to offer our upcoming NO-COST virtual event called EDGE-inar: Mapping Our Way Across the Digital Divide that will take place on May 31st. In this EDGE-inar, we will explore the best practices for…
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Social Equity Analysis Solution for parks
Hello GIS family! San Francisco Rec and Park recently deployed the new Social Equity Analysis solution to better assist us in identifying high needs areas of the city where access to parks is also poor. The Solution makes sense on paper, but we're having difficulty deciphering the terms and tools used in the curated…
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Is there a more accurate way to collect race & ethnicity data?
Clinton J. brought up a good point last week at the Midwest UC. The census standards for race & ethnicity data collection were established back in 1997 by the U.S. Office of Management & Budget! It hasn't changed much. In a perfect world, how should these numbers be classified to be more inclusive- especially with more…
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ESRI Demographics data
Hello there, I was wondering if ESRI has considered or would consider making a select subset of the ESRI Demographic data available for free to download for the purposes of doing equity/justice focused analysis? For example, energy burden is a key indicator in energy justice and it would be great to have public access to…
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Position Announcement: Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead - Associate Director, Mapping Prejudice Program - University of Minnesota Libraries
Mapping Prejudice is seeking a new associate director to join its highly-collaborative, trans-disciplinary team. Our new colleague will be committed to community-powered research around structural racism and will lead the project’s geospatial research and manage its datasets. This person will curate the datasets for…
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Social Justice Themed Dashboards
FYI, some example dashboards built on ArcGIS Dashboards used to help convey social justice and equity use cases. Evaluating Vulnerability and Equity (EVE) Dashboard - Milwaukee County Race and Policing in America (Data) dashboard
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Having difficulty navigating the new census.gov data download interface
Hi, I'm a volunteer for a voter registration organization here in Texas. I last used census.gov in summer 2020, and I think it's been changed since then. I can no longer figure out how to download census tract data attributes of my choosing for Harris County TX. I used to use factfinder2.census.gov, which doesn't seem to…
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Call for Presentations UC 2021 - October 30th Deadline
The deadline is OCTOBER 30TH to submit presentation abstracts to the Equity & Social Justice Track for Esri UC 2021! Don't miss this opportunity to share your stories of advancing #racialequity and #socialjustice with your peers from the global #GIS user community. Submit abstracts at this link by October 20th to be…
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GIS for Racial Equity & Social Justice UC2020 SIG - Recording Available
On July 16th, 2020, over 1,100 people gathered to hear how 3 organizations from the government & nonprofit sectors approach racial equity and social justice work and the role that GIS plays in advancing each of their missions. Attendees heard from Deirdre Johnson Burel and Amanda Otter (Otter:Create) representing the W.K.…
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Are you able to support communities interested in learning about redistricting?
Mississippi Mappers Needed - Southern Echo, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi but working throughout the southern United States - is seeking people familiar with GIS to help the organization educate community members about the upcoming electoral redistricting process as they prepare to ask questions of the people…
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GIS for social justice volunteers?
Hi all, I'm wondering if this user group might be a useful place to recruit GIS professionals looking to help social justice organizations? If so, here's an idea: Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) is seeking an experienced, independent cartographer to continue a volunteer project mapping toxic sites. Across Alaska,…
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GIS-Ready Historical Redlining Data Now Available
A redlining layer of 143 cities is now available in ArcGIS Living Atlas and in the Racial Equity GIS Hub. This ready-to-use layer can provide important context for your work. GIS-ready historical redlining data is an important tool to help us understand how historical inequities still contribute to inequities today. Read…
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What are some resources for measuring Equity and quantifying Opportunity and Access? How can we make these method(s) for research standard?
I'm beginning my journey into this realm of Equity and GIS, because it has always been work that I have wanted to be apart of. As a returning student, I want my new journey in this realm of work to become my own work and effort, separate from my job as a GIS Specialist. Any information that could help, please reply. Thank…
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What’s New In The Racial Equity GIS Hub?
This document will be updated with highlights of what is added and updated on the Racial Equity GIS Hub site. October 15th * New Racial Equity Community Outreach Solution and accompanying Blog Post * New featured application by Black Girls M.A.P.P. highlighting BIPOC and women candidates running in the 2020 election *…
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New Esri Racial Equity Website and GIS Resource Hub
In many ways, geography has become a tool for gaining a greater understanding of inequities, but it has also been the means to draw boundaries that keep communities segregated. Specifically, there is a long history of place-based social exclusion manifested in redlining practices, creating patterns in cities that continue…
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New Racial Equity Initiative at Esri
Hi all, You may have seen the recent email from Esri's Founder and President Jack Dangermond (a copy is posted below, and you can also find the social media posts on Linked In and Twitter). In response to the senseless and horrific killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and too many others, Esri expresses…
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Storymaps LIVE! on Grand Canyon First Nations, Jun 17 2020
The Grand Canyon Trust has been working on a storymap presenting firsthand stories from the "people whose cultures, worldviews, and livelihoods are inextricably tied to the Grand Canyon region". On July 17 Storymaps LIVE featured storytellers will be Stephany Smith and Ellen Heyn from the Trust, sharing their approaches…
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Why Location Matters | Black History Month Event
Videos from the Why Location Matters event are available on the Esri Events channel on YouTube. The presentations are powerful, thought-provoking, such as this one by Nicole Franklin of King County, Washington. Why Location Matters – Local Governments focused on Equity - YouTube
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Hello, looking for collaboration
Hello, I am Kathy Ware, MSN, CRNP and I am not currently working with GIS but I have been actively looking for an opportunity to work on public health/social justice issues such gun violence, hunger, and the opioid crisis and this of course involves racial inequities and institutional racism as well as mass incarceration…
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Identifying Access to Opportunities
Hi All, I work for Fairfax County, VA in the One Fairfax office (our equity and social justice group). I have created different web applications to display vulnerabilities (see our Vulnerability Index). I think we have a handle on vulnerable populations – where to get the data, how to display it, etc. I have been using the…
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How is your organization responding equitably to COVID-19?
Hi everyone, On April 27th, Clinton Johnson posted about the importance of a racially equitable COVID-19 response. We know that COVID-19 is disproportionately negatively affecting individuals in communities of color at an alarmingly high rate across the US. Of course, this inequity is due to discrimination in our health…
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King County Offering Virtual GIS for ESJ Training
Registration is now open for a new session of the King County GIS workshop Introduction to GIS for Equity & Social Justice, on Wednesday, June 17, from 8:00am-12:30pm (Pacific Time) 11:00am-3:30pm (Eastern Time) This class will be presented live, via Zoom (credentials to be emailed to registered attendees in advance).…
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Deadline Extended to 6/12 - Submit Your Maps to the Equity & Social Justice Group in the Virtual UC Map Gallery!
Don't forget to submit your maps to the Equity & Social Justice group in the map gallery! You can do so here. This is the first time we have had this group at the User Conference and we would love to see all of your important and impactful work included! Note: the deadline to do so is June 5th now June 12th! See you there!
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New Dataset on Esri's COVID-19 Resources Hub
There's a new dataset available on Esri's COVID-19 Resources Hub. Learn more about the dataset and why it was important to include it in a new blog post in our series supporting efforts to address racial equity amid COVID-19. COVID-19 isamplifying health, racial, and economic inequalityto create disparities in outcomes in…