Brianna Villaverde, a 2019-2020 undergraduate researcher working with the Research Justice Shop, shared this infographic with participants of the Research Justice Workshop series’ workshop 8: Producing and communicating knowledge in community-based research. This infographic provided workshop participants with an additional example of how research findings were synthesized and visualized to share back with the communities that the research impacted. Below Briana describes the process for creating the product as well as the product itself.
What was the output/product that you created?
I created 5 infographics in Spanish and English for community groups who participated in Listening Sessions (similar to a focus group) about their experiences with water for a Santa Ana Watershed wide strengths & needs assessment conducted in 2018-2019. In most communities, participants were invited to a Community Water Conversation (CWC) to learn about the findings from the Listening Sessions and also to engage with local resource managers who attended in order to respond to questions. The timing and location of the CWCs did not work for all of the participants, however, so we decided to also make the infographics to communicate the findings to people who could not go to the CWC in their community.
What was the purpose of the product? How did it come about?
The purpose of the product was to summarize for the community groups the findings from the listening sessions specific to their location. Infographics were made for community groups that were not able to have their own in-person follow-up Community Water Conversation after their listening session.
What is the organization and your relationship to it?
The Research Justice Shop (formerly Newkirk Community-based Research Initiative) team was contracted by SAWPA to hold listening sessions. RJS hired me through the Water Resource & Policy Initiative (WRPI) as an intern to assist the Newkirk team with the listening sessions with community groups.
Who worked on it?
The infographics were primarily designed by Briana Villaverde, with content written by Paulina Mejia (UCI Masters in Public Policy, ’20). Data for the infographics came from conversations with those at the Listening Session with Community Groups, which were then transcribed and analyzed by another team at UCI in the Department of Anthropology (another collaborator on the SAWPA project) who then provided de-identified analyzed data to our team (RJS) who shortened and simplified the data. I (Briana) worked on the graphic and visual design and translated all of the infographic language from English to Spanish after we finalized the text and layout.
Newkirk Listening Session with Community Groups → UCI Anthro → Research Justice Shop → Community Groups
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