The whyPAR Podcast

Episodes

• Facilitator Archetypes: Navigating Institutions as Community Engaged Facilitators

  2 Dec 2025 00:30:14

• From “oh sh*t!” to “oh shift”, a conversation with Leila Angod, Jessica Bleuer, Rose Gutierrez, and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

  2 Dec 2025 00:38:46

• Saving or Engaging: Rethinking Community Facilitation, a conversation with Ananya Banerjee and Annie Chau

  30 Nov 2025 00:29:21

• “Creating joyful resistance in communities”: On Visual Participatory Methods with Casey Burkholder

  13 Jun 2024 00:39:21

• “People who live in their neighbourhoods know it better”: On community engaged and participatory urban planning research with Dr. Aditi Mehta

  6 Jul 2023 00:41:48

• “There’s no one way to do this”: On youth-adult partnerships and embracing complexity, a conversation with Sharif Mahdy, Stoney McCart, Kwaku Agyemang, and Maddy Ross

  12 May 2023 00:28:21

• “Not everything can be fully participatory, right?”: On "True" PAR, A Conversation between Aurora Santiago-Ortiz and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

  15 Aug 2022 00:45:59

• “What happens when you run onto the edges of progressivism?”: On Conducting YPAR in Elite Schools, A Conversation Between Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and Leila Angod

  1 Mar 2022 00:40:00

• “Art Is Research”: On Knowledge from Identity and Place - A Conversation between Maddy Ross and Artist-Researchers Pree Rehal, Bert Whitecrow, Ayrah Taerb, Ammarah Syed, and Jahmal Nugent

  11 Nov 2021 00:35:39

• “How to Empower Themselves in an Industry Not Meant for Them”: On Community-Engaged Programming with Lil Sis (Alma Ahmed, Suzanna Maharaj, Rayan Saied, Belul Kidane, and Kamilah Apong) and Naima Raza

  27 Oct 2021 00:36:59

• “Now that we were conducting the research, it felt more like power“: On Doing YPAR Before and During COVID-19 - A Conversation between Maddy Ross and youth researchers at the Youth Research Lab

  6 Oct 2021 00:32:42

• “If we really learned like this in school, school would be so much better”: On Building Generative Classrooms - A Conversation Between Maddy Ross and youth researchers at the Youth Research Lab

  4 Oct 2021 00:34:46

• “Getting to the point where we erase the Y the P and the A”: A Conversation Between Nicole Mirra, Antero Garcia and Melanie Bertrand

  30 Mar 2021 00:38:16

• “Beauty emerges out of commitment”: How Youth Collectives Create Beauty, A Conversation Between Rangoato Hlasane and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

  2 Mar 2021 00:28:19

• "It wasn't about being an artist, it was about getting together": On Building Youth Collectivities, A Conversation Between Rangoato Hlasane and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

  2 Mar 2021 00:22:48

• "A space that belongs to the city, but is being neglected by the city": On The Geographies of YPAR, A Conversation Between Rangoato Hlasane and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

  2 Mar 2021 00:25:16

• “We don't talk about the work without the youth researchers”: On Ethical Commitments and the Politics of Dissemination (Part Two)

  11 Jan 2021 00:29:49

• “It’s all about your relationships”: On Ethical Commitments and the Politics of Dissemination (Part One)

  28 Dec 2020 00:32:42