I will present an overview of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) Local Volume Mapper (LVM), which began survey operations last November. The LVM is a new optical integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way (at <pc scales), Magellanic Clouds (at ~10pc scales), and of a sample of local volume galaxies. In all systems, LVM uniquely able to connect resolved pc-scale individual sources of feedback to kpc-scale ionized interstellar medium (ISM) properties. LVM resolves the regions where energy, momentum, and metals are injected into the ISM at the scale of gas clouds, while simultaneously charting where energy is being dissipated (via cooling, shocks, turbulence, bulk flows, etc.) to global scales. I will give an overview of the new telescope, and present early science results on Orion, individual nebulae in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, and views of nearby dwarf galaxies.