CAMBIAR Collective

The CAMBIAR Collective: 

Challenging Oppressive Actions and Structures Towards Marginalized Communities in Academia and Research (CAMBIAR) is a research-practice team led by undergraduate and graduate students and Dr. Josefina Bañales at the University of Illinois, Chicago. 

The Collective examines adolescents’ critical racial consciousness development, or how youth develop beliefs, feelings, and behaviors that challenge racism. They investigate the extent to which social contexts (e.g., racial/ethnic messages from parents and schools) and individual sociocultural factors (e.g., ethnic-racial identity) inform youth’s critical racial consciousness development. 

Collaborating with schools, youth community organizing groups, youth, family serving practitioners, and academics across the county, the Collective develops and collaborates on projects that aim to dismantle racism.