All-In All-Together

Community based research navigating the turbulent time and places of political and biological pandemics

We know that the turbulence of our time and places can only be navigated safely when we are ‘all-in’ ‘all-together’ to find creative ways to deploy our resources, resist the ongoing assaults on vulnerable communities, and renew our bonds of connection that sustain us. We invite our growing network(s) of scholars, organizers, community leaders, funders, and students to join a series of virtual events that will provide time/space to deepen our conversations and support one another in our work to strengthen community and university responses to COVID and to racial justice movements.

We are determined to bring our postponed All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice conference to life in the virtual environment as we move toward an in-person gathering as soon as possible in the 2021-2022 academic year. We are launching this series of virtual events with the immediate publication of short ‘case’ videos that document our work (further releases will be ongoing) and a national dialogue on October 23rd, followed by an ongoing series of focused virtual gatherings that will be topical, methodological, and strategic.

Virtual Events

Session 1 – October 23, 2020, 11:00-1:00pm (Pacific time)Event Info

The October 23rd event is a “flipped” style gathering, and registrants are asked to asynchronously view the short video ‘case’ presentations and provide input to the gathering hosts in advance so that our synchronous time together is maximized for fruitful dialogue and engagement for all participants. Subsequent virtual events will enable in-depth explorations of each of the initial ‘cases’ as well as other topics and cases.

We launch our series with an initial set of ‘cases’ meant to help us understand how community-university collaborations are evolving, what community partners need from universities in these times/spaces, what role research can play in the current struggles, what barriers partnerships are facing and what successes have they discovered.

We will explore a collaboration led by formerly incarcerated women, a partnership documenting the impacts of COVID on educational opportunity, a model for integrating university students in strategic research around the sense of connection and belonging of immigrants, and a higher education living/learning community designed for impactful partnerships.Speakers

Ana Antunes, University of Utah

Timothy Eatman, Rutgers University/Newark

Michell Fine, City University of New York (CUNY)

Steve McKay, University of California Santa Cruz

Community partners and co-presenters coming soon.

Register for the free event here