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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Our first Geospatial/GIS meetup of 2025 will be held on
<b>Tuesday, January 14 </b>from<b> 12:00-12:50 pm.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">This meetup will be
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: red;"><b>held on Zoom only</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">. Here’s the Zoom information: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Meeting ID: 964 5785 5999</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">To register for the meetup, please respond to this calendar invitation, or use
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/geospatialgis-meetups-tickets-1131003083669?aff=oddtdtcreator" id="OWA0e17d2ac-fe4f-8560-6ce3-c725aa1b57c5" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Eventbrite</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">.
Registration is appreciated but not required. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The meetup will be recorded. (Please do not use AI note-taking tools; I’ll provide notes and a link to the recording after the meetup.)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Alex Reed, a project manager for Mapping Black California, will be presenting on MBC’s
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><b><u><a href="https://combatingracism.com/" target="_blank" id="OWA75da6977-4da6-590a-f470-8f3980636ffa" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://combatingracism.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Combating
Racism as a Public Health Crisis</a></u></b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> platform.
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Catalyzed by the violent, public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, public outcry for the acknowledgement of structural racism in law enforcement, healthcare and community conditions
has resulted in nearly 35 separate Declarations of Racism as A Public Health Crisis by county commissioners, city boards, and government associations (entities) across the state of California. These declarations are an important first step to advancing racial
equity and justice and must be followed by allocation of resources and strategic action. As is too often seen with issues that acknowledge the unfortunate and uncomfortable parts of American culture, yet so directly impact a near majority of residents, public
protest is often met with swift allegiance expressed in words but seldom backed by deeds. In partnership with Stanford University and The Starling Lab, Mapping Black California has centralized the oversight of monitoring, analysis and reporting on the progression
of commitments made by these elected and appointed associations from the perspective of the communities these declarations are meant to serve. For this session, we would provide context on the project’s ideation, introduce the map, dashboard, and authentication
technology, while walking people through the platform, explaining how this tool and the technology used to capture it is useful for journalists in their work.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Alex Reed
</b>is a project manager for Mapping Black California and provides support as a data researcher and visualizer for its many initiatives. In her broader practice she operates under the tagline A Jane of All Trades, working at the intersection of data and storytelling
seeking to create moments where a user, reader, or student finds themselves engaged with and engrossed in information that they may have previously thought was beyond their reach. As a data activist, Alex has been able to address issues that range from disparities
in health and education to social justice and civil rights battles for a variety of institutions, The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Mellon University and WorldStage, Inc. to name a few.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The meetup will start with announcements of general interest.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Best,</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-Janet Reyes</span></p>
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