Graduate Student Dialogue on Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship
A CU Boulder Research and Innovation Week Event
Research and Innovation Week 2026
A dialogue highlighting graduate student approaches to public and community-engaged research, teaching, creative work, and collaborative knowledge production.
Each session will include:
- The opportunity to learn about the Community Engaged Research Toolkit and Graduate Student Community-Engaged Scholarship Ecosystem Mapping
- Roundtable presentations and discussion. Scheduled presenters for each session will be posted by Sept. 20
Session 1
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. | Reimagining Participation
- What Counts as Youth Wellbeing and Success?
- Hayes Hart-Thompson (they/them) PhD; Health and Human Geography
- Humanizing the Protocol: Using Creative Zines to Decolonize Informed Consent in Community-Based Research
- Danielle N. Aguilar (she/her) PhD; School of Education
- Protocol Dramaturgy
- Kasra Mirfattahi (he/him) PhD; Theatre and Dance
- El Rincón de Curiosidad (Curiosity Corner)
- Julisa (she/her) PhD; Cognitive Psychology
Session 2
2 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Place, Power, and Community-Led Futures
- Lived Experience Experts as Researchers and Policy Advocates
- Liz Corrado (she/her or they/them) PhD; ENVS
- Collaborative Cartography: Mapping Acequias with Those Who Tend Them
- Ula Adamska PhD; Communication
- Jewish Dissent, Failure, and the Intricacies of Exile
- Asher Firestone (they/he) PhD; Critical Ethnic Studies
- Building Community Relationships
- Kelsey Armeni (she/her) PhD; Anthropology
- Economic Diversification in NW CO Coal Transition Communities
- Norman Kalen (he/him) MA; Masters of the Environment
- Alex Rudawsky Co-presenter | Masters of the Environment
- Partnership Building in Participatory Research using Narrative-, Land- and Arts-Based Methodologies
- Laura Meinzen (she/her) PhD; School of Education