Dr. Benavides is an Assistant Professor in the Staley School of Leadership at Kansas State University. Benavides received his doctorate in Leadership Communication from Kansas State in May 2022. He is receiving this award for his dissertation, “Hilos del mismo tejido”: Weaving community perspectives into community-based global learning through critical micro-ethnographic testimonio, which uses the metaphor of weaving to unravel and weave together the threads of local knowledge and academic conventions. It is scholarship that centers community voice, through testimonio, and underscores the challenges that emerge in international community engagement partnerships, while also offering important guidance on ways to ethically and effectively pursue these relationships. From these findings, Dr. Benavides offers a six-phase iterative process for establishing and maintaining reciprocal partnerships that aims to guide practice.