Name
Radical Reciprocity: Equitable Practices for Sustainable Community-Engaged Research & Practice
Date & Time
Monday, March 31, 2025, 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Location Name
Imperial Ballroom
Focus Area
Centering mental health, belonging, and well-being
Session Type
Roundtable
Description

Community-engaged professionals and faculty, known as boundary spanners are often altruistically motivated to pursue external collaborations and partnerships. Their engagement is well-documented caring and service-oriented labor that is infrequently reciprocated by institutional leadership, policy, and practices (Brackman, 2015; Herd & Meyer, 2002). This session will provide a framework that applies the hallmarks of community-engaged collaboration, reciprocity and mutuality, to boundary spanners in relationship to their institutions in support of equitable and sustainable community engagement. We will examine how the concept of radical reciprocity (Kaba and Hayes, 2023; Kilroy et al., 2023; McGrath, 2022) can be used at our own institutions to co-create and sustain change that will improve and strengthen our community-engaged work without sacrificing our individual and collective well-being.