CORE friends Rachel Bloom-Pojar (UW-Milwaukee) and Maria Barker (Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin) recently published a paper on the role of confianza in community-engaged work for reproductive justice. The paper describes their work with Latinx communities in Wisconsin, promotores de salud from those communities, and Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. They conclude that building confianza — often translated as trust or confidence but which more broadly encompasses “loyalty, having someone’s back, humility, helping, being there no matter what, doing what is best for a person” — is an integral component to reproductive justice research. You can find the full text article here, and a summary here.