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Community-engaged research and teaching aim to counter extractive and exploitative practices between universities and marginalized communities and instead build sustained and mutually beneficial relationships based on an ethics of care. Community-engaged methodologies assert that faculty commit to seeing each stage of the research and teaching process as part of an ongoing relationship-building process with the community, recognize that communities to co-create knowledge, and enhance the capacity of communities to advocate for their own well-being. Developed across several disciplines, including education, public health, and policy, community-engaged methodologies are increasingly of interest to IS faculty working on community-engaged projects with libraries, archives, and digital justice organizations.

This interactive workshop will guide IS faculty and students through the process of creating mutually beneficial relationships with community organizations for research and teaching purposes, based on the presenters experiences as founding members of the Mellon-funded Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS) project.