As a fellow for the Research Justice Shop, it was interesting to hear the various approaches researchers across disciplines used to conduct community-based research. Though many attributes and methods were similar, there were apparent differences that emerged in discussions during fellows’ meetings, as well as the community-based research workshops in the Research Justice workshop series […]

Introductory Note From September  2019 – September 2020, Newkirk Fellows Jennifer Renick, Jazette Johnson, and Elizabeth Hanna Rubio partnered with Orange Country Environmental Justice (OCEJ). Founded in 2016, OCEJ aims to develop grassroots leadership amongst people directly impacted by environmental racism within the ancestral homelands of the Acjachemen and Tongva Nations, now known as Orange […]

Introduction Often in traditional research, power is unequally distributed amongst researchers and those whom they are studying. When working with people, relationships are typically transactional; the researcher needs participants to complete the study and participants are often compensated in some way. While participants often must consent before partaking in a study, their power is limited. […]