Dr. Meagan Call-Cummings is an Assistant Professor of Research Methodology at George Mason University’s School of Education. Dr. Call-Cummings’ work most often takes participatory action research forms. For her dissertation she worked with 52 undocumented Latinx students and their White teacher in rural Idaho on an 18-month YPAR project that asked the question, Why are our teachers racist? Over the past three years she has worked with a core group of ten high school students and teachers on a YPAR project they called Courageous Conversations, which attempted to help students value their own voices, experiences, and expertise on issues that are important to them but often silenced in classrooms. By engaging in arts-based inquiry including Spoken Word Poetry, Theatre of the Oppressed, Photovoice, and narrative methods, students created art to tell their stories and have their voices heard. Dr. Call-Cummings’ publications are most often methodological and grapple with issues of power, validity, and ethics in the context of PAR and YPAR. She is currently writing a book on critical participatory inquiry with Giovanni Dazzo and Melissa Hauber-Ozer, scheduled for publication in 2023.