Fourth Spring 2025 EDIC-PDC Workshop
Wednesday, March 5, 12:10–1:30 p.m.
Join via Zoom
Title: Community-Engaged Research — A Practitioner’s Perspective
Abstract: Community-engaged research involves people, relationships, and the integration of needs and viewpoints from outside of academia. There are numerous ways of engaging with communities in research, and innumerable communities that researchers can engage with. I will share two examples of community-engaged work that differ in their topic (water management and grazing of rangelands), the community partners involved (state agency and ranchers and public lands managers) and their history (going on two decades and five years) to describe some of the challenges and achievements that are possible when you strive to have research results work with and for communities.
Bio: Sonia is the Agricultural Climate Resilience Specialist at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at WSU. She works with transdisciplinary teams to make research relevant and useable. She helps engage the Center’s clientele — producers, legislative staff, regulatory and government agencies, NGOs and agricultural professionals — in research, and works to share the results in useful and useable formats. Sonia earned her undergraduate degree from the School of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a PhD in Ecology from Colorado State University, and joined CSANR in 2014.
