diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a2d39a81d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+name: CI
+
+on:
+  # push: -- just run on PRs for now
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    services:
+      postgres:
+        image: postgis/postgis:13-3.0
+        env:
+          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgis
+          POSTGRES_DB: arches
+        ports:
+          - 5432:5432
+        options: --health-cmd pg_isready --health-interval 10s --health-timeout 5s --health-retries 5
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out arches
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          repository: archesproject/arches
+          ref: dev/7.5.x
+          path: arches
+
+      - name: Check out afs
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          path: afs
+
+      - name: Set up Python 3.10
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.10'
+
+      - name: Install afs
+        working-directory: afs
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install .
+          echo Project installed
+
+      - name: Install Java, GDAL, and other system dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libpq-dev openjdk-8-jdk libgdal-dev
+          echo Postgres and ES dependencies installed
+
+      - uses: ankane/setup-elasticsearch@v1
+        with:
+          elasticsearch-version: 8
+
+      - name: Check for missing migrations
+        working-directory: afs
+        run: |
+          PYTHONPATH="../arches" python manage.py makemigrations --check --settings=arches_for_science.test_settings
+
+      - name: Run afs unit tests
+        working-directory: afs
+        run: |
+          PYTHONPATH="../arches" python -W default::DeprecationWarning manage.py test --settings=arches_for_science.test_settings
diff --git a/arches_for_science/test_settings.py b/arches_for_science/test_settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad0f834f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arches_for_science/test_settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import os
+
+# Depends on /arches being on the python path, as arches.tests is not importable
+from tests.test_settings import *
+
+from arches_for_science.settings import INSTALLED_APPS, ROOT_URLCONF, APP_NAME
+APP_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+# Further settings may need to be added from project, just don't
+# want to clobber anything from core test settings for now.
+# Also, settings can be overridden directly. See @override_settings
diff --git a/arches_for_science/tests.py b/arches_for_science/tests.py
index 4c6fd7dd0..80a2b9262 100644
--- a/arches_for_science/tests.py
+++ b/arches_for_science/tests.py
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
 from django.core.management import call_command
 
 from django.test import TestCase
@@ -9,7 +12,10 @@
 from arches.app.models.tile import Tile
 
 def setUpModule():
-    call_command("packages", "-o load_package -s arches_for_science/pkg -y".split())
+    # TODO: when py 3.11 is min (soon), we can use contextlib.chdir() context mgr
+    os.chdir(Path(__file__).parent)
+    # TODO: this command isn't using a tempdir, so it's leaving behind files
+    call_command("packages", "-o load_package -s pkg -y".split())
 
 
 class AnalysisAreaAndSampleTakingTests(TestCase):