May 20-23, 2027

Community-Engaged Writing Workshop: Northern New Mexico

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What to Expect

Beautiful Social Research Collaborative’s Community-Engaged Writing Summer Workshop
Designing for Justice in Community Projects, Programs, and Partnerships

Join us in Northern New Mexico for a four-day immersive workshop in community-engaged writing and community-led media. Through guided reflection, collaborative learning, and hands-on practice, we will explore how writing and design can share power, strengthen community resources, and build lasting capacity.

Rooted in methods developed through the Beautiful Social Research Collaborative, this workshop offers participants the time, space, and practical tools to create more just and reciprocal projects, programs, and partnerships.

❋ A Community of Practioners

Designed for nonprofit and community-based organizations, scholars, educators, activists, and practitioners committed to inclusive, sustainable, and community-led change.

❋ Designing for Justice

Justice-centered work asks us to transform both our mindsets and the structures that shape our projects. Together, we will consider how writing and media can strengthen community knowledge, relationships, resources, and authority.

❋ Sharing Power, Building Capacity

Explore practical methods for co-creating knowledge, sharing decision-making, and designing with communities. You will develop approaches that build lasting skills, resources, and capacity in community hands.

❋ Time to Slow Down and Connect

Our annual Northern New Mexico gathering offers four days to step away from daily demands, reflect deeply, learn from one another, and build relationships that sustain the work long after the workshop ends..

  • "This workshop was truly transformative. We had space to build deeper relational and intellectual connections leading me to multiple breakthroughs in conceptualizing the community writing project I am developing. "

    Rachael Shah PhD,
    Associate Professor, University of Nebraska

  • "The work which is already coming from it, a network of affiliated scholars and artists, as well as a collaborative writing project, has the potential to shape the next wave of community engagement in higher education across the country.”

    Matthew Pavesich, PhD
    Director and Teaching Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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With support from the John Cardinal Foley Program for Media and Civic Engagement and the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Saint Joseph’s University.