Our Research Methods

Our research is led by fifteen community leaders from historically underrepresented communities in the sciences. They lead community-based participatory research in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and have engaged a total of thirty community-based organization perspectives to better understand equity, diversity, and inclusion in citizen science. The questions, methods, analysis, results, and dissemination are determined by these researchers. 

They began their work three years ago out of frustration that their community voices were remaining unheard in the sciences and a strong distrust of dominant culture institutions that hold the balance of power and have been called on by funders to solve problems in their communities.

This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL#1422022).

Photo by Marilú López-Fretts