Introducing: Community Mapping for Racial Equity and Social Justice ArcGIS tutorial collection

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On behalf of the Learn Team, I'm excited to share the release of our newest tutorial collection: 

Community mapping for racial equity and social justice 

 https://community-mapping-learngis.hub.arcgis.com/ 

⁠This resource is designed to equip young mappers with essential ArcGIS skills and focuses on mapping local communities through the lens of Racial Equity and Social Justice (RESJ) workflow.   

Whether you're a middle school or high school student, an educator, or a member of a community-based organization, learning GIS skills can enhance your career opportunities, educational engagement, and help you meet your advocacy goals.   

Many of the new workflows were developed from my experiences (Niki's) as a community-based organizer in South LA to engage local residents and youth around issues of environmental justice. ArcGIS has so many great tools to make community engagement, education, and policy advocacy compelling, engaging, and effective to restore and transform neighborhoods that have been historically underserved. 

In this collection, you have the flexibility to complete the curriculum sequentially or choose specific workflows that interest you. The materials are designed to be accessible and can be adapted to suit your goals, learning style, and software access. Each tutorial is self-contained, so you can start with any tutorial without having to complete previous ones. By working through all four sections of the collection in order, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of using GIS and mapping skills for an environmental justice project. Each section can be completed in one week if you dedicate an hour a day to it.   

The ⁠Community Mapping tutorial collection is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning GIS skills to understand, plan, and advocate for positive change in their local community.   

Please share this resource with your communities, customers, and educators who want to equip youth mappers with equity-based GIS workflows and STEM skills.  https://community-mapping-learngis.hub.arcgis.com/ 

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WHAT AN INCREDIBLE RESOURCE!    How do I raise my hand to volunteer as a GeoMentor for a student or highly motivated class of students (perhaps their school already has an ESRI SCHOOL BUNDLE?  

With the 2025 ESRI USER Conference happening in July (a great month to be in San Diego by the way), I have been communicating with students about how "...the SDGs are highly dependent on geospatial information and Earth observations as the primary data for relating people to their location and place, and to measure where progress is, or is not being made".  

Sadly, in the US, neither United Nations, nor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenge are talked about, much less topics for mapping and analysis.  While these are topics, I have a level of expertise on, I would definitely like to volunteer my time and energies to help promote greater mapping of  scoial justice and rracial equity.....

https://yoursdgstory-learngis3.hub.arcgis.com/pages/featured-sdg10