You may use Google Maps every day, but how often do you think about how that map was made—and more importantly, who made it? In today’s episode of Unpacked, we do just that. You’ll never again look at a map the same way.Meet this week’s guests

Billie Cohen, AFAR executive editor

Evan Applegate, editorial cartographer 

Clinton Johnson, Antiracist Geospatial Architect

Dr. Atyia Martin, executive director of a nonprofit called Next Development Leadership (among many other things)

Cymone Davis, former town manager of Tullahassee, Oklahoma, the oldest historically Black town in Oklahoma.

Resources

Read this episode’s show notes, including a full transcript of the episode.

Listen to Evan’s podcast, Very Expensive Maps, and check out the maps he makes.

See Clinton Johnson’s National Geographic Explorer award.

Explore Cymone and Dr. Martin’s Black Towns & Settlements Project.

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