Community Based Participatory Research
In 2023, Mi Oaxaca completed a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) project focused on the lived experiences behind the rapid changes in Oaxaca and the global mezcal boom. Through in-depth interviews and focus groups with Oaxacans across the diaspora—including farmworkers and their children in Oxnard, hospitality workers in Oaxaca, and Oaxacan community members—we documented native and Indigenous experiences, their interpretation of the boom, and the links between identity, culture, and socio-economic changes.
Findings from the 2023 Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) were disseminated through the Voices of Mi Oaxaca project which consists of two parts: a zine (Sharing Roots) and a social media campaign (Echoes of the Land). You can access both parts of this projects below:
Voices of Mi Oaxaca: Sharing Roots
Voces de mi oaxaca: Compartiendo Raíces
Former research associate, Taty, during a CBPR group interview, Oax. (2023)
Free access to the digital ZINE,Voices of Mi Oaxaca: Sharing Roots, through the links below:
Voices of Mi Oaxaca: Sharing Roots centers the stories of participants as they are. As you read about their experiences, you will find guiding questions that we hope prompt you to think more deeply about the way the stories, ideas and values expressed through these personal narratives relate to your own ideas, beliefs and experiences.
Limited physical copies available for purchase
Ecos de la Tierra
Echoes of the Land
The digital media series Ecos de la Tierra is one component of the Voices of Mi Oaxaca project which focuses on the perspectives of different Oaxacan individuals who shared their stories and voices through individual interviews led by Research Associate Taty Trinidad Hernandez as part of the 2023 Community Based Participatory Research.
Ecos de la Tierra was shared digitally through our Instagram.
This work aims to center Indigenous voices in narratives surrounding the Oaxaca and mezcal boom, food sovereignty and cultural and personal identity. We hope to challenge the erasure of Oaxacan Indigenous perspectives that often get left out in mainstream media by uplifting their knowledge and experiences.
If you learned something from this project, we invite you to make a generous contribution which will support Mi Oaxaca’s ongoing narrative change efforts: