Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:41 AM

The League has partnered with the MGGG Redistricting Lab to provide train-the-trainer sessions for Redistricting Champions regarding their mapping and COI Tool, Districtr. Districtr is a free tool available to anyone and everyone who is interested in fair mapping. 

The MGGG Redistricting Lab will be hosting free train-the-trainer sessions on Zoom to demonstrate how to collect "communities of interest" input with Districtr. They will send out a Zoom link 24 hours in advance. There are three remaining training sessions with availability for January per below.

Thursday, January 21st - 7:00pm ET
Wednesday, January 27th - 7:00pm ET
Thursday, January 28th - 7:00pm ET

If you register for one of these sessions, dixiejean [at] gmail.com (please click here to forward your confirmation email to Dixie Sampson), our PPFM Coordinator, so she may track our League's activity in this initiative per our grant fulfilment. You can also email Dixie directly at dixiejean [at] gmail.com. 

Districtr is a free, public web tool for districting and community identification, brought to you by the MGGG Redistricting Lab. The goal of Districtr is to put the tools of redistricting in the hands of the public, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of civil rights organizations, community groups, and redistricting commissions. Districtr came about from a conversation with Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), the Boston arm of the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. LCR was describing their work with community members in Lowell, MA, who were frustrated about not having a voice in the city council.