Campus Compact and the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) are partnering to host a virtual discussion with the authors published in our recent special section on Centering Youth in Youth Participatory Action Research from Volume 31, Issue 1.

This themed section of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning centers Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as a promising approach for building with and extending the interplay of voices, perspectives, and intersectional identities of youth–who we identify as individuals age 15–24, aligning with the United Nations definition–as youth enact contemporary movements toward justice in the ongoing work of and quest for social justice (Marciano & Watson, 2021; Richards-Schuster et al., 2019; Watson & Petrone, 2020). Specifically, we welcomed for inclusion in this special section renderings within and across contexts of service learning that foreground such participatory approaches.

Participants will engage with authors directly to gain more insight into the findings of each article and the methods and processes behind the findings. Come learn from the authors and bring your questions!