Agreed, thanks for setting this up! I'm a Cooperative Development Specialist at the University of Wisconsin, with a background in urban planning and community-rooted worker cooperatives. I'm currently based in Madison, WI, and am chicanx. I'm also interested in ways to take back community power through urban planning and GIS tools - as you all know, there are so many ways this might look, so I'm excited to learn from and with you all. My own GIS & social justice work has included trail equity and accessibility in Cincinnati, used GIS in assessing coastal flood zones with climate change in comp plans, and I put GIS to use towards
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