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Detroit GIS Day

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November 20th, 2025

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9am - 3pm

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Wayne State University

Undergraduate Library, Bernath Auditorium

5150 Anthony Wayne Dr. Detroit, MI 48201

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Submit a 10min Lightning Talk

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Give a quick 10 minute talk with 10 slides about your GIS or mapping project about Detroit. You can demonstrate a new mapping tool or website too.

Submit to the Map Gallery

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Submit a map that utilizes Detroit open data. Submissions will be displayed in an on-site exhibit.

KEYNOTE

November 20 @ 1pm

Sharon Cornelissen, PhD

Sharon Cornelissen is a sociologist and national housing expert. Her book “The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in Detroit” comes out November 2025, and draws on three years while she lived in Brightmoor, Detroit, including as homeowner of a $7,000 house. As director of housing at the Consumer Federation of America, she leads research and advocacy to help end our housing crisis. She received her doctorate in sociology from Princeton University and previously worked at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Originally from the Netherlands, she now lives in Washington DC.