Pitzer’s values of social justice, intercultural understanding and community engagement can come to life through intentional uses of research methodologies that are community-led and participatory, engaging faculty, students, and local community members in meaningful collaborations for change on any number of topics.
Come learn about this approach and how to enact it in your own research or facilitate it with your students.
Tessa Hicks Peterson is associate professor of Urban Studies and Pitzer’s faculty director of CASA, a community-based rsearch program. For over 25 years, Tessa’s scholar activism h as centered on bringing diverse groups together for collaborative projects that build community and foster personal and systemic change.
