Geospatial Justice Fellow - Michigan

(Full job description available here: https://trubel-co.notion.site/Geospatial-Justice-Fellow-Michigan-54d3a56b0ea04859937efe44a85aaa4d)

To solve the world’s most pressing issues, we need to empower those closest to inequity to be drivers of liberatory innovation. We need good trouble.

trubel&co (pronounced "trouble and co") is a tech-justice nonprofit championing underserved youth to tackle complex societal and environmental challenges using equitable data analytics, responsible technology, and inclusive design. Our mission is to accelerate proximate innovators who are committed to liberation by empowering the next generation with the opportunity and tools to fix the problems they care about the most. See more.

In our approach to democratizing access to liberatory innovation, trubel&co grounds career technical education and experiential learning with liberatory design and abolitionist frameworks. Our STEM curricula and curated spaces of civic discourse center identity & place while mobilizing students as agents of change in their own communities, resulting in trubel&co diversifying the fields of STEM and innovation, building critical consciousness, and instilling self-efficacy as the next generation reimagines society for the better.

Our services fall under three core pillars: Learn, Build, and Connect.

• Learn: Accelerating technical capacity and civic discourse via one-time & extended learning environments integrating STEM & liberation, including our summer program Mapping Justice, where high school students learn geospatial analytics, explore the intersection of Race, Power, and Technology, and create digital apps for social change
• Build: Filling the technical deficit within civic initiatives through service-learning, job placements, and advisory work, mobilizing students and staff to directly apply their skills in data, design, and technology to tackle societal and environmental challenges
• Connect: Extending the impact of our pedagogy & amplifying the capacity of alumni via programs on storytelling, upskilling, and networking around liberatory innovation, including public workshops, professional development, conference talks, and more!

Responsibilities

• Michigan Partnership Development
  • Cultivate and manage partnerships with key stakeholders, businesses, and organizations across Michigan to establish mutually beneficial partnerships
  • Identify collaboration opportunities with various industries and sectors within Michigan, fostering partnerships that align with trubel&co’s goals
  • Lead partnership discussions and agreements, ensuring favorable terms while aligning with trubel&co’s programming objectives
  • Communicate key updates with necessary stakeholders, for example when call for participant interest is live for trubel&co’s workshop series
  • Documentation of partnerships and contacts in the Michigan ecosystem
• Workshop Facilitation
  • Administer and coordinate workshop series among involved partners, and support affiliated activities (e.g., student recruitment, teacher partnerships, program evaluation)
  • Manage trubel&co’s ArcGIS Online environment for workshop participants
  • Develop workshop content including seminars and the creation and sourcing of GIS-specific learning materials, in partnership with our Instructional Lead
  • Facilitation of workshops offered to students in Michigan, with a focus on Detroit-area youth
• Environmental Justice Research & Advisory
  • Manage partnerships and planning efforts to stand up a Resilient Civic Futures hack-a-thon during the Fall 2024
  • Support hackathon partners craft case studies on how GIS may enable new efficiencies and achieve internal goals for environmental justice organizations
  • Contribute to geospatial curricula, supporting our work to ensure lesson plans and workshop materials reflect youth voice, current topics, pedagogical best practices, and changing sociopolitical contexts
  • Align curricular material with various elements of social justice, including but not limited to environmental justice, racial justice, educational equity, health access, LGBTQ+ rights, and economic opportunity
  • Pursue research on real-world applications of geospatial analytics across multiple industries, but all rooted in impact & justice