To solve the world’s most pressing issues, we need to empower those closest to inequity to be drivers of liberatory innovation. trubel&co (pronounced like "trouble") is a tech-justice nonprofit that mobilizes youth and communities to leverage local data to tackle challenges that matter most. Bridging technical skills to civic action, we provide data civics curricula, training, and educational platforms to drive socio-environmental advocacy. Democratizing access to data, design, and tech, our programs equip learners, educators, and nonprofits with mapping tools and spatial analysis skills to investigate local problems, craft data-driven stories, and spark good trouble. 

Whether modeling flood risk, mapping health disparities, or documenting food deserts, our trubelmakers make local problems visible and design community-driven interventions. Our curricula grounds career technical education and place-based learning with civic inquiry and liberatory design, resulting in trubel&co building technical capacity, enabling critical consciousness, and instilling self-efficacy. 

Our services fall under three core pillars: Learn, Build, and Connect.

📚 Learn: Accelerating technical capacity and civic discourse via one-time & extended learning environments integrating STEM & liberation, where students learn geospatial analytics, explore the intersection of Race, Power, and Technology, and create digital apps for social change

🧑🏾💻 Build: Filling the technical deficit within civic initiatives through service-learning, job placements, and advisory work, mobilizing students and staff to directly apply their skills in data, design, and technology to tackle societal and environmental challenges

🔍 Connect: Extending the impact of our pedagogy & amplifying the capacity of alumni via programs on storytelling, upskilling, and networking around liberatory innovation, including public workshops, professional development, conference talks, and more!

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