Why Power and Privilege Matters: Key Considerations for Meaningful Community Engagement

Carly Walker-Dawson discusses how to achieve meaningful community engagement by acknowledging and addressing power imbalances to build trust, value lived experience, and foster equitable, inclusive participation. When doing community engagement – as academics, policy makers or practitioners – we often think or say that we’re equals with the communities we’re working with. But we’re not. … Continue reading “Why Power and Privilege Matters: Key Considerations for Meaningful Community Engagement”