Drawing on an extensive organizational ethnography of a non-profit organization aimed at facilitating elite educational access for racially and economically marginalized students, this talk explores the ethical and practical challenges of conducting equity-based research within mission-driven organizations. By highlighting discrepancies between organizational narratives and participants’ lived experiences, it examines how qualitative inquiry can uncover and navigate these gaps to foster accountability, equity, and meaningful change.
Speaker: Garry Mitchell
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
The Equity in Research Learning Collaborative series serves as an opportunity for our staff to learn how to make CCFP research more equitable with respect to race, ethnicity, and other forms of diversity at all stages from conceptualization to recruitment to data collection to analysis and reporting of findings.