Learning Café: A Community Engaged Scholarship Series with Nicole (Nikki) Barry

Join us for our monthly Learning Café series highlighting the community engaged work of our faculty and graduate students. Listen, learn and engage with the work of our school.

Featuring Nicole (Nikki) Barry, PhD., Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice Education

Community-based research design (CBDR) is an approach to research that prioritizes community goals, voices, desires, needs, and perspectives. While many researchers and community members are interested in utilizing this research model to center community strengths, build capacity, and even nation-build, it is not always clear how to integrate community participation into each aspect of the research process. In particular, data analysis and interpretation may seem more challenging when incorporating community participation. Community participation in data analysis is important to ensure that data is defined appropriately, validly measured, managed correctly, and interpreted to achieve the goals of the community and the research team. This session will explore the importance of including community participation in the data analytic process, create a space to discuss data and analysis broadly, engage participants in hands-on analysis and interpretation, and share results from an ongoing CBDR project exploring how culture affects our thinking about ecosystems.

Future Dates

Winter 2025

• Karen Hunter Quartz – February 11
• Thuy Do Vang – Winter Quarter
• Ananda Marin – Winter Quarter

Spring 2025

• Julissa Muñiz – Spring Quarter
• Cinthya Salazar – Spring Quarter
• Melissa Villa-Nicolas – Spring Quarter
• Chris Jadallah – Spring Quarter