After participating in the 2021 Science Sprint working group, I planned and executed a one-day Science Sprint focused on exploring urban ecology and social and environmental justice. Specifically, during the sprint, students used R and QGIS to explore the present day effects of racist mortgage lending practices, known as "redlining", on bird biodiversity in five major metropolitan cities across the east coast at four timepoints. In addition to learning R and GIS, participants also took part in conversations around environmental justice, urban planning, and data analysis. Data collected and analyzed during the sprint was used to construct a research poster that was presented by several participants at our institution's annual undergraduate research day the following week.