Developing Antiracism Community Dialogues: A Community-Driven Participatory Action Research Project

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Abstract

Trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches offer critical practices to repair community harms, such as emphasizing the need for choice, voice, and agency. Studies focused on restorative justice and indigenous traditions of community dialogue (Bastian & Flinn, 2018) advocate for culturally responsive collaborations (Hook et al., 2009) between communities and schools along the P-20 educational continuum (Aiyer et al., 2015; Braddock, 2022; Paris, 2012). This paper’s purpose is to present the findings of an interdisciplinary critical participatory action research project (Fine & Torre, 2021), representing a partnership between West Philadelphia community residents, researchers in urban education, law, and public health, and Philadelphia’s sole community mediation center to reimagine holistic cross-sector collaboration in higher education as a humanizing tool amidst socio-political unrest.

Authors

• Tiffani D. Hurst, Drexel University

• Rebecca Rose Metzger, Drexel University

• Karena Alane Escalante, The Education Trust

• Ayana Allen-Handy, Drexel University

• Susan Brooks, Drexel University

• John D. Kirby, United Negro College Fund

• Lotus Barron, Drexel University

• Isaiah L. Lassiter, Drexel University

• Tamara Hawkins, Drexel University

• Kenniaah Rose Samuel-Evans, Drexel University