GIS EDUCATION

We teach young people to read the map before someone else writes them out of it.

The GeoJustice Institute brings GIS education to youth ages 12–24, communities, and organizations — so the people most affected by land decisions can read, question, and shape them. Mapping Equity Matters.

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FLAGSHIP PROGRAM

The Skyway Tech Program

GIS education embedded inside a working recreation center — where students learn mapping tools on real neighborhood data, not a classroom exercise.

SKYWAY RECREATION CENTER, ATLANTA

Community mapping, taught where the community already gathers

Students at the Skyway Recreation Center learn ArcGIS fundamentals through the PEARi Tech Program — mapping their own blocks, parks, and infrastructure gaps, then presenting findings back to the people who live there. It's the model we're building every other program on.

12–24Age range served
SkywayHost recreation center
Real dataStudents map their own neighborhoods

Community GIS workshops

Short-form sessions for residents and community groups on reading maps, public data, and how land decisions actually get made.

School & district partnerships

GIS curriculum support for teachers who want mapping and spatial thinking in the classroom without building it from scratch.

Organization training

GIS capacity-building for nonprofits and community organizations that need mapping skills in-house.

INTERNATIONAL EQUITY GIS

Equity mapping doesn't stop at Atlanta's city limits.

Alongside our Atlanta education programs, The GeoJustice Project's analytical work extends the Institute's mission internationally — putting the same land-equity, community-first methodology to work wherever the data and the need line up.

ANDROS ISLAND, THE BAHAMAS

A nine-year land cover and forest-change baseline for Andros, the largest island in The Bahamas

The GeoJustice Project built a satellite-based land cover record (2017–2025) and a 24-year forest history extension (2000–2024) for Andros Island — tracking water, forest, wetland, and developed land over time to support local, sustainable land-management and habitat-protection decisions, in the same spirit as our Atlanta parks and equity work.

2017–2025Annual satellite land cover record
-10.1%Forest extent lost since 2000 (Hansen record)
13,880 km²Study area monitored (land and nearby shallow sea)

Findings are mixed and reported as such: the annual satellite record shows tree cover rising about 12.5% from 2017 to 2025, while the longer 24-year record shows a net forest loss of about 10% since 2000, with 2017, 2024, and 2023 the hardest-hit years. Full methodology, sources, and deliverables are documented in the project's Data Sources and Workflow Register.

FEATURED STORY MAP

Guardians of Andros

An interactive story map built with Professor Mikki Harris of Morehouse College, a Morehouse student researcher, and leaders from Andros Island: where the island's habitats are, what the satellites show, and why communities have the right to decide the future of their own land and sea. Take the guided tour, swipe between 2017 and 2025, and stand with Andros.

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COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHY · BLACK BELT ALABAMA

Land is freedom: mapping Black landownership in the rural South.

The same land-equity methodology, turned toward home: six original maps tracing the route from Kongo and the Gullah Geechee coast to Camden and Gee's Bend, Alabama.

FEATURED STORY MAP · BOOK CHAPTER COMPANION

Soil to Soul: Land, Identity, and Resistance in West Alabama

The companion story map to James H. Patterson III's chapter for The 1526 Project, edited by Samuel T. Livingston, Ph.D., Morehouse College Africana Studies. It follows the treaties that took Muscogee (Creek) and Choctaw land, the forced walks that peopled Gee's Bend, the 1937 resettlement that made former sharecroppers landowners, the dam that flooded their bottomland, and the heirs' property that now covers nearly half of the Bend's acreage. Built in the Morehouse College Africana Studies ArcGIS organization from public data and the author's fieldwork.

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WHY IT MATTERS

Land decisions get made with or without the people they affect.

GIS is the language those decisions are written in. We teach it so more people are in the room able to speak it.

12–24
Youth age range served
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Flagship site: Skyway Recreation Center
ArcGIS
Hands-on curriculum on real data
Atlanta
Home base, growing from here
GET INVOLVED

Three ways in.

Sponsor

Sponsor a seat in the Skyway Tech Program or help bring the program to a new site.

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Volunteer

Teach a session, mentor a student project, or help run a community workshop.

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Partner

Bring the program to your school, recreation center, or organization.

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The GeoJustice Project is the company that runs the Institute — they build the GeoJustice Decision Platform under the motto "Software Equity Matters." We teach the people who will one day use tools like it.

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CONTACT

Partner, volunteer, or sponsor.

Tell us how you'd like to get involved and we'll follow up within two business days.

Prefer to talk? Call 678-224-1645.

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Where your support goes

Direct program costs: instructor time, ArcGIS licensing for students, field equipment, and transportation to community mapping sites.

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