GA EVENTS
The Geography Association at UCLA hosts meetings, workshops, and other events throughout the academic year.
Unless specified otherwise, events are designed for all members of the community: majors, non-majors, faculty, staff, and graduate students.
EVENTS ARCHIVE
2026
Picnic w/ UCLA Archaeology Club
CGS Conference
Geography Community Coffee Hour
Human Geography Alumni Lecture + Q&A Session with Dr. Adam Moore, Dr. James Walker, Dr. Cameran Asheraf
GIS Mapping Challenge: A Live Review featuring Dr. Michael Shin, Dr. Thomas Gillespie, Phyllis Li, and Jennifer Badger
2025
Poetry is a Map: Land, Liberation, and the Poetics of Resistance w/ aja monet, Dr. Kaily Heitz, and Kaya Dantzler
Geography Innovation Forum w/ Dr. Kelly Kay, Dr. Steven Steinberg, and GSI Environmental
The Edge of the Archive: Tracing Memory, Land, and Method in Geography
GA Relaunch Social
2023
General Meeting: The GIS Job Application Process w/ Mike Ridland, ESRI
2022
UCLA Geography Association and UCLA Friends of Geography: Alumni Student Mixer
USC vs. UCLA Mapathon
General Meeting: Public Sector
Urban Planning Career Panel w/ Dr. Robert Wiener, Steve Esselman, and Jen Johnson
Board Presentations
Resume Workshop with Mike Ridland
2021
Movie and Study Night Social
Careers in Environmental Science and Sustainability: A Panel
Alumni Speakers ft. Maya O’ Brien and David Kaitz
GIS Career Panel
Career Workshop: Educators in Geography
Meeting with UCLA Spatial Data Librarian, Zhiyuan Yao
Meeting with the Surfrider Foundation LA Chapter
2020
Grad Spotlight w/ Clare Beer: Environmental-economic geographer
Grad Spotlight w/ Zachary Frial: Urban Development and Real Estate in the Phillippines
GIS Workshop w/ Albert Kolchaphum
Grad Spotlight w/ Jon Ocon: Tropical Dry Forests and Urban Heat Islands