Throughout the research process, we critically reflected on our positionality and any power dynamics relative to other students. We will be collecting data from and relative to each other.

Although we have a diverse research team regarding gender, culture, ethnicity, race, nationality, and religion, not all student identities are represented in our research group.

Research team members collectively acknowledged that we hold embodied subjectivities and biases shaped from our own lived experiences, which impacted the way we formed our research questions, study design, data collection, and analysis.

As part of the CPAR process, each research team member openly discussed parts of our identities that experience oppression or benefited from cycles of oppression. Such identities included gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, socioeconomic status, disability status, immigration status, education status.

Overall, the diversity in experiences, perspectives, and cultures across our research team members provided valuable reflections and helpful challenging of beliefs throughout the research process to center equity in the research and reduced individual internal biases for a more balanced interpretation of data.