“…Participatory action research focused on environmental justice is part of a progressive agenda to bring community voices and experience to impact curriculum and learning for Latina/o families (Pedraza, 2002). Community organizers begin by assessing the values and meanings of participants in a process that unites community members through reflection; this organizing accesses the local power/ knowledge of the participants and moves them toward goals that realign their relations with the dominant culture (Foucault, 1980;Rouse, 1994).…”