Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jun 2024 Open Access

What Brought Us Here, What Keeps Us Here: Multiple Perspectives on Building and Sustaining a Community-Engaged Youth Research Partnership

Bethany Monea ; Meagan Call-Cummings ; Sara Berhe-Abrah ; Anahat Goraya ; Oaklen Kalinichenko ; Widad Khalid ; Liz Rotherham ; Amy L. Best ; Khaseem Davis ; Natale Gray ; Jeffery Keller ; Sara Martah

Abstract

The Youth Research Council (YRC) is a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project in which high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, and university-affiliated professors and administrators collaborate on consequential, justice- oriented research projects in their community. In this article, twelve members of the YRC reflect on our reasons for joining and remaining active participants in this community-engaged research project. Our discussion and analysis of “what brought us here” and “what keeps us here” offers a window into strategies and struggles for cultivating transformational reciprocity and sustainability within research partnerships.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2024-06-10
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10.59236/rjv23i2pp126-156
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