Black
Girls
M.A.P.P.
Mapping with action to pioneer progress.
BGMAPP is a community focused group that connects and empowers women of color in the field of GIS, and enables marginalized communities to visualize various social issues and empowers these communities with information to help them make more informed decisions using GIS.
Our primary objectives are to:
Create Awareness, Connect and Celebrate black women who are contributing to the progress of Women in GIS.
Evangelize GIS by engaging in community-focused projects.
Highlights from The Hub
BGMAPP is important to me because black women bring narratives to the field of geosciences that are often over-looked. It’s comforting to know I have a network of women, whom are reflective of me, to discuss and create those narratives with.
The film Hidden Figures shined a light on the forgotten history of Black women’s contributions to science....Black Girls MAPP will make sure those continuing contributions, specifically in the field of GIS science & technology, remain shining brightly in the light!
It’s time to change the narrative within black communities where geospatial is concerned. It’s time to empower young black girls to be superheroes with geospatial technology. It’s time to celebrate both the accomplishments and the future potential that have been hidden for far too long. I am super excited about how BGMAPP will play a major role in ALL of this!
Through harnessing the extraordinary power of GIS, BGMAPP can help provide a platform for Black Girls to make an impact and confidently be creative, unique, and imaginative in this modern world.
