Abstract: In this roundtable, we showcase a multidisciplinary community-engaged research partnership with the nonprofit FilExcellence and Filipino American communities, offering perspectives from community organization, psychology, education, political science, history, and gender and women’s studies. Here, we discuss our experiences with initiating and sustaining community-based participatory research and create space to explore barriers and solutions to conducting community research with Asian/Pacific American communities. By way of illustration, each presenter will describe insights from the Usap Tayo national study, a mixed-methods investigation using Kuwentuhan as method and kapwa theory to explore the politics of wellbeing connected to Filipino Americans. Tony DelaRosa opens with a reflection on critical whiteness in Asian American scholarship and his auto-ethnographic notes from designing the research to leading focus groups. Next, Gabriella Sagun presents findings from our research on the theme of militarization. Cai Barias will explore the significance of place and memory within participants’ responses. Sarah Amplo will utilize a Pinayist framework to discuss participants’ definitions of success. Hadley Rahrig provides a perspective on future directions for health equity scholarship. Finally, Matthew Veland will lead a discussion on the Filipino value Kapwa as a guiding principle for equitable and multidisciplinary community-based research.

(*This session is the session I preference out of the two submissions)