In partnership with Drexel Kline School of Law, CORA Good Services Mediation, and the United Negro College Fund, this project is designed to support community leaders through an interactive training panel that would address issues related to race and racism in their community. The goal is to identify community leaders with the skills necessary to facilitate dialogue around sensitive topics to further understand and address issues of race in the community. The project's significance is the potential contribution to the growing body of literature on the use of participatory and civic action research to take an asset-based approach to empower communities through dialogue and conflict resolution.

Partner(s): Drexel Kline School of Law, CORA Good Services Mediation, and the United Negro College Fund

Funder: Partners for Campus Community Engagement, Drexel University

Presentations

Allen-Handy, A., Metzger, R., Kirby, J. & Brooks, S., & Escalante, K. (2022, October). Critical Race Perspectives on Collaborative Community Research. Conference Workshop at the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Annual Conference. San Diego, California.

Allen-Handy, A., Hutson, T., Metzger, R., Barron, L., Fuller, N., Tutdeal, N., & Escalante, K. (2022, February). Healing Dialogues: An Anti-Racist Model for Community
Mediation. Conference Presentation for the Winter Roundtable at Columbia University,
Annual Meeting.

Allen-Handy, A., Metzger, R., Escalante, K., Hutson, T., Brooks, S., Kirby, J., & Tudeal, N. (2021, October). Developing Anti-Racism Community Dialogues: Critical Participatory Action Research Project. Conference Presentation for the Critical Race Studies in Education Association, Annual Meeting.