How can public history offer methodologies for social justice in the present political moment? What lessons can we take from how oral history has been utilized since the very beginnings of Asian American Studies, and use it to enact the change we want to see in the 2020s? Addressing the role of oral history and community-based archives, this panel directly speaks to the goal of the 2023 conference regarding the importance of public scholarship in the service of social change and political justice.