Keynote
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Erin McElroy, Associate Professor, Geography
"Erin McElroy is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. McElroy’s work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, fascism, empire, and racial capitalism, alongside housing justice organizing, countermapping, and transnational solidarities...McElroy is cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project—a data visualization, counter-cartography, and digital media collective that produces tools, software, maps, reports, murals, zines, oral histories, and more to further the work of housing justice. Recently the collective published Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance. At UW, McElroy runs the Anti-Eviction LabAnti-Eviction Lab, where much of the student and community partner driven research focuses upon Landlord Tech Watch—a platform dedicated to producing collective knowledge about landlord-driven surveillance techniques. Newer lab work is also focusing on technolibertarian urbanism in the US and beyond."
Text from UW Department of Geography