Cathy and I had so much fun during our live-recording for the IonE Annual meeting that we decided to follow that discussion up with a longer conversation. Reconvening allowed us to take some more time to go into greater detail about scholarship that empowers communities.

During the first part of our follow-up conversation, Cathy and I chatted about community-based participatory research (CBPR), how CBPR might be a tool that land grant universities might use to better pursue their charge to serve the public, and how institutions of higher-education (and the folks who lead them) might better support scholars who would like to integrate CBPR into their work.

As a quick reminder: Cathy Jordan wears many hats. She’s a pediatric neuropsychologist that teaches at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She’s also the Associate Director for Leadership & Education at the Institute on the Environment and the Consulting Director of Research for the Children and Nature Network. While Cathy’s work is always informed by the principle that research should robustly include the communities that it’s about, her scholarship has — at different times — focused on a range of topics. These topics include: the impacts of lead exposure on children, methods within community-based participatory research, and the effect of exposure to nature on wellness and learning.

Links: http://environment.umn.edu/staff/cathy-jordan/ https://www.childrenandnature.org/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00766/full