Traditional cartography has been a process owned by governments and empires for centuries. Historically, it has been a tool of exploitation—the result of European explorers tasked with mapping trade routes and colonial territories.
Reagan Yessler, a graduate student in the Department of Geography, is part of an effort to reclaim the cartographic process through counter-mapping, an emerging research concept that provides restorative social justice by revealing the realities and knowledge of oppressed groups in society.
