Mapping Your Local Environment
Get ready to explore your commmunity like never before, uncovering environmental justice concerns through data to develop powerful stories!
Date and time
Location
Newark Public Library - Van Buren Branch
140 Van Buren Street Newark, NJ 07105Agenda
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Meet and greet other attendees!
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Introduction to the workshop
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Workshop: Part 1
6:00 PM - 6:05 PM
Bio-Break!
6:05 PM - 7:00 PM
Workshop: Part 2
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Debrief & Closing
About this event
- Event lasts 3 hours
Mapping Your Local Environment - Newark, NJ
Mapping Your Local Environment (MYLE) is an introductory workshop that addresses inequitable data representation by training participants in GIS to map local environmental justice concerns. Environmental justice organizers, local journalists, and other interested community members will learn to identify and challenge biases by developing critical skills to find, analyze, and present relevant local data, combining qualitative and quantitative insights to build powerful narratives in support of Environmental Justice.
This workshop is presented by Newark Documenters and the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, in partnership with Rooted Futures Lab and Urban Data Response.
Please bring a laptop and a charger. If you are unable to bring a device, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Snacks and drinks will be provided! If you have a dietary practice, please let us know.
Frequently asked questions
We ask that you bring a laptop and a charger to the workshop. The workshop will have you explore different data sets to map out your environment. We have only 5 computers available in the library lab, so make sure to bring your laptop if you can!
Through this workshop, you will learn about geographic information systems, a system that maps out our environment. Think Google Maps! We only have a limited number of computers in the library computer lab, so it's important you bring your laptop.
Great question! After this workshop, you will... * Understand the historical/colonial context of maps and challenge their perceived authority * Analyze the different uses of GIS in local environmental justice contexts * Learn introductory skills to use GIS tools