Erica Meiners is Assistant Professor of Education and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and the principal of an alternative high school for formerly incarcerated men and women in Chicago.FranciscoIbáñez-Carrasco works as a community educator, social researcher, and is visiting faculty at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

• Foreword, Suzanne de Castell Introduction: Making Knowledge in Public: Overturning an Audience, Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco and Erica R. Meiners Section 1: Disruptive Desires Poverty, Policy, and Research: Toward a Dialogic Investigation, Amanda Boggan and Shauna Butterwick Desire and Betrayal in Community-Based Research, Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco Waadookodaading Indigenous Language Immersion: Personal Reflections on the Gut-Wrenching Start up Years, Mary Hermes Trials and Tribulations for Social Justice, Adriana Espinoza Section 2: Audiences to Participants Theater Forum at the Urban Odyssey School: A Case Study, Michael Sanders Write it, Get it: Motivating Youth Writers, Michael Hoechsmann Take Two on Media and Race, David Stovall When I close my classroom door.: Private Places in Public Spaces, Jen Jensen Section 3: Public Acts Working between University and Community: Shifting the Focus, Shifting the Practice, Erica R. Meiners (with engagements from Salome Chasnoff and Roberto Sanabria) How Research Can be Made to Mean: Feminist Ethnography at the Limits of Representation, Patti Lather How New Yorkers Said No to War: An Experiment in Message and Action, Chris Cuomo Encounters with Memory and Mourning: Public Art as Collective Pedagogy of Reconciliation, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá