The RENEW Hub is the research space where I collaborate with students, community members, and colleagues.

Vision Statement: We envision a collaborative research environment where scholars partner with community members to generate knowledge that advances collective wellness and empowerment. Through this work, we aim to transform traditional research approaches, ensuring our findings contribute to both theoretical understanding and practical applications for community healing and growth.

Mission Statement: We aim to advance innovative research that prioritizes community wellness, growth, and healing through methodologies that honor lived experiences, inherited wisdom, and future possibilities. Our space creates pathways for rigorous scholarly work that bridges academic expertise with community knowledge, fostering research that serves holistic well-being across generations.

We seek to prepare interdisciplinary student scholars and community members to contribute and lead to:

(1) Innovative Research & Knowledge Development 

Advancing creative, community-driven methodologies that respect lived experiences, inherited wisdom, and ways of understanding while connecting rigorous research with community expertise to generate new frameworks for promoting well-being

(2) Community-Engaged Partnerships & Well-being Practices 

Building and sustaining meaningful partnerships with community members, practitioners, and local organizations to jointly create, implement, evaluate, and share evidence-based interventions that foster individual and group healing

(3) Leadership Growth & Sustainable Change 

Creating pathways for multi-generational leadership that improves access to wellness resources while building capacity for lasting community transformation through co-mentorship, resource sharing, and policy development to address longstanding challenges.