Community Partnerships
SciCAN: Building Trust-based Community Partnerships for Scientists Participant
June 2022
Guiding Principles
- Take the lead from communities, work with the community to get to the research questions
- Plan research collaboratively
- Practice non-extractive relationship-building: don’t parachute in
- Recognize when communicating with frontline communities from a place of privilege: acknowledge your differences
- Show up without showing off
- Build trust with community groups
- Keep your priorities straight: the goal is policy change and building power for the grassroots movement. De-center yourself and your personal/professional goals
Additional Resources:
- Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
- 17 Principles for Environmental Justice Moving Forward Network Community Led Strategies
- West End Revitalization Association Memorandums of Understanding and Agreement for collaborations, interactions, and partnerships between impacted communities and academic institutions and related contractors.
- Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition Webinars How to show up for frontline communities and building partnerships How white supremacy shows up in organizing spaces
- Feminist Research Institute UC Davis Asking Different Questions workshop series to help support researchers interested in better integrating social justice into their scholarship o Moving from Asking Different Questions to Action-oriented Change
Other resources:
- Scientist-Community Partnerships
- Scientist Advocacy Toolkit
- Science for Justice Blog Series
- It's (Been) Time to Uplift the Voices of Marginalized Communities