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Multiple generations of leaders are working within communities to address complex social challenges that no individual, organization, or institution can solve alone. Community Engaged Leaders offers a different lens for understanding how leadership emerges with and through communities confronting inequities, navigating complexity, and creating change.
This book explores how community engaged leaders cultivate the relational, ethical, learning, and civic conditions through which communities strengthen their collective capacity to shape their own futures. Through scholarship, stories, lived experience, and practice, it examines relationships, shared learning, ethics, power, collaboration, reflection, and the complexities of social change.
Readers are invited to engage with the book using scenarios, community-engaged leader perspectives, reflective questions, and courageous conversations to examine their own practice. Rather than positioning leadership as the work of individuals alone, the book invites readers to consider how they can cultivate leadership, share power and resources, and create conditions for meaningful, sustainable community change.
Karen T. Jackson is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Adult Education at North Carolina A&T State University and a member of the Academy of Community Engaged Scholars and served as President of the American Evaluation Association.
Elizabeth Z. Waetzig obtained a juris doctor and is the CEO of a virtual consulting firm, Change Matrix. Her areas of focus include the mental health of children, youth and families, early childhood, the crisis response system, education, and public health and health systems.
Angelicque Tucker Blackmon has a Master's in Analytical Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in Educational Research Studies from Emory University. She serves on the American Evaluation Association Board of Directors.
Foreword; Jara Dean-Coffey
Section 1. The Why of Community Engaged Leadership
Chapter 1. The Ecology of Leadership: Historical Context and the Emergence of Community Engaged Leadership; Karen T. Jackson and Elizabeth Z. Waetzig
Chapter 2. Reimagining Leadership in Community: Reflections on Source, Voice, and Responsibility; Elizabeth Z. Waetzig and Karen T. Jackson
Section 2. The Who of Community Engaged Leadership
Chapter 3. Identity, Leadership, and Change in Community; Portia D. Pope, Imani D. Johnson, and Karen T. Jackson
Chapter 4. Diverse Backgrounds and Environments Developing Leaders: Courageous Conversations as Leadership Development; Sylvia W. Burgess and Salim Burgess
Section 3. The What of Community Engaged Leadership
Chapter 5. Leading through Uncertainty: Ethics, Trust, and Decision-Making during a Global Pandemic; Alison Hadley Sigmon and Karen T. Jackson
Chapter 6. Community Engaged Leadership for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging; Jacqueline Roebuck Sakho and B. Dexter Sharp II
Section 4. The How of Community Engaged Leadership
Chapter 7. From Head to Heart: Embodied Leadership, Vulnerability, Trust, and Community Connection; Shona Munro, Emily M. Janke, and Karen T. Jackson
Chapter 8. Values Consciousness within Community-Engaged Leadership: Conforming and Transforming Leadership Practice and Research; Angelicque Tucker Blackmon, Anthazia Kadir, and Karen T. Jackson
Chapter 9. Cultivating Community Power: Collaboration, Trustworthiness, and Shared Learning in Community Engaged Leadership; Elizabeth Z. Waetzig and Karen T. Jackson
Chapter 10. Implications for Understanding Community Engaged Leadership from the View of Evaluators and the Field of Evaluation; Aimee N. White and Karen T. Jackson
The Community Engaged Leadership Guide; Karen T. Jackson, Sylvia W. Burgess, Alison Hadley Sigmon, Elizabeth Z. Waetzig, and Aimee N. White