2026 Mapathon Success
Spring at CU-Geography means Mapathon Time! The CU-Geography Mapathon successfully launched its 2nd annual Mapathon campaign centered on cartographies of hope. For organizer Prof. Isaac Rivera, cartographies of hope are doorways for rehearsing a liberatory world in the here and now. Undergraduate and graduate students from across CU-Boulder and the Front Range participated, submitting maps across several themes including Life Affirming Geographies; Geographies of Care and Repair; and Geographies of Sustainability and Environmental Justice. The Mapathon Committee aspires to continue on with the Mapathon in the coming years, uniting Geography across Colorado to elevate the life affirming ways in which Geographers map our world.Ìý
See the Mapathon winners and entries here.
Winner of the Life Affirming Geographies Category
Syd Stevens for the map: Resisting Displacement on the Streets of Boulder, CO
Winner of the Geographies of Care Category
Benedict McCullough for the map:ÌýBoulder’s Libraries: Not Just for Books
Winner of the Geographies of Resistance & Repair Category
Zosia Kirkland for the map: Teenage Revolution: Mapping Resistance and Repair conducted by the youth of Denver East High School
Winner of the Geographies of Sustainability & Environmental Justice Category
Samara Lo for the map:ÌýNetworks of Conservation
Grand Prize Winner of the Best Overall Map
Zach Steiner for the map: Tufting the Jordan Valley: Emotional Spatiality of Zionist Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance
Winner of the People's Choice Map
Zach Steiner for the map:ÌýTufting the Jordan Valley: Emotional Spatiality of Zionist Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance
Honorable Mention
Darian Chavez-Matsunaga, Student at Regis University, for the map: Living Nations, Living Land: Indigenous Steward Ship in Colorado