27th
Black Geo Practitioners
Impacting Our World
a compelling call to action, inviting
individuals, organizations, and
communities to celebrate, embrace,
and grow Black representation in the
geography, GIS, and other fields that
leverage geographic approaches.
on October 27, 2024, aligning with the
birthday of Gladys West, an American
mathematician whose groundbreaking
contributions to Earth modeling and
satellite geodesy models significantly
influenced the development of the
Global Positioning System (GPS).