Centering Youth in Youth Participatory Action Research

Youth and young adults in the United States and globally increasingly envision, organize, and lead contemporary movements toward justice across a range of formal and informal contexts within and beyond schools, communities, and university campuses.In doing so, youth demonstrate their participatory, communal, lived civic engagement (e.g., Cohen et al., 2018; Watson & Knight, 2015), extending their intersectional identities across contexts of race, gender, sexuality, immigration status, language, and dis/ability.Youth have focused attention on structural and systemic racism in #BlackLivesMatter activism; urged university officials in #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa to decolonize curriculum, halt tuition fees, and increase government tuition funding; led marches and