PMA Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo has been selected for a 2025/2026 Faculty Fellowship in Engaged Learning at Cornell University, on behalf of the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. Faculty fellows cultivate a learning community of engaged faculty leaders committed to integrating principles and practices of engagement in our research and teaching; supporting aspirations to help heal the world; and advancing community-engaged learning and research with colleagues, partners, and students.
“I'm honored and elated to be included in the 2025/26 cohort of Faculty Fellows in Engaged Learning at Cornell University,” said Russo. “The initiative's mission echoes my very own, rooted and motivated by cross-pollination between our research and work in academia, in the field, and in the community.
“Community-engaged and participatory action research necessitates an accountability to the self and to the collective, alike, and with that, compassionate curiosity, mutual vulnerability, and careful, vigilant observation. In practice and in reflection, the embodied arts offer distinct perspective, power, and consequential skill sets for collaboration, critical diversification, and social change for the long term.
“I'll be endeavoring creative research for a socially-engaged performance project that includes resource-sharing and mutual aid, and aims to foster authentic relationships between the university and local non-profits working in reproductive healthcare accessibility and equity. The practice of organizing and producing this project takes place in tandem with my course writing and curricular development, also endorsed and supported by the yearlong fellowship.”
Read more about the Faculty Fellowship in Engaged Learning.
