SouthernBelle Radical.

Eliza Jane Franklin is an UCLA African American Studies undergraduate alumnus. As a participant of the Ronald E.McNair Scholar Program, a federally funded research program for students from underrepresented groups, she completed a departmental thesis. She is a mentee of Dr. Tyrone Howard and a congressional award-winning social justice researcher. Currently,she is an UCLA Urban Planning graduate student who crafted her own independent area of concentration called Critical Race Studies, Digital Mapping, and Heritage Conservation. As a system impacted person and descendant of a lynching victim, Eliza remains engaged in the fight against mass incarceration and racialized gendered violence through multiple mapping projects. She promotes liberation for marginalized communities worldwide who occupy rural and urban spaces through a Black Girl Cartography (Butler,2018) lens. In her quest for equity, her driving force is to merge activism through the arts with her passion for urban planning to cultivate reimagined real and digital spatial imaginaries.