Susan kicks off the GIS Day activities at Northeastern University in Boston, MA with her keynote address “Recovering Erased Communities with GIS: The Japanese American Incarceration Use Case.” She discusses how the unconstitutional imprisonment of approximately 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry not only destroyed the lives of the incarcerees, but also decimated the vibrant pre-war West coast Japanese American communities, most of which were not reconstituted after the war. Using GIS and visualizations of locational data in survivor oral recollections, researchers have reconstructed information about the pre-WWII Japanese American community in Tacoma, Washington. This methodology that can be used to create awareness about and address inequities in other communities that have been similarly erased by wrongful government policies and practices.