biostudies-literatureUnknown16Randolph ACFollowing the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Minneapolis represented the epicenter of protests that would reverberate internationally and re-instantiate a reckoning of the systemic and institutional racism that plagues American society. Also in the summer of 2020, and after several years of planning, the University of Minnesota (UMN) launched the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), an interdisciplinary clinical and community research enterprise designed to create knowledge and engage all members of our community. In what follows, we describe the mission of the MIDB Community Engagement and Education (CEEd) Core and adjacent efforts within the UMN neuroscience and psychology community. Inherent to these efforts is the explicit attempt to de-center the dominant academFrontiers in integrative neuroscience1060896https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9797530biostudies-literatureCreating a sustainable action-oriented engagement infrastructure-a UMN-MIDB perspective.PMC9797530Mejia APDeJoseph MElison JTRandolph ACHenry AHewitt AKoenig MSethuraju RFair DAfalseCreating a sustainable action-oriented engagement infrastructure-a UMN-MIDB perspective.Following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Minneapolis represented the epicenter of protests that would reverberate internationally and re-instantiate a reckoning of the systemic and institutional racism that plagues American society. Also in the summer of 2020, and after several years of planning, the University of Minnesota (UMN) launched the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), an interdisciplinary clinical and community research enterprise designed to create knowledge and engage all members of our community. In what follows, we describe the mission of the MIDB Community Engagement and Education (CEEd) Core and adjacent efforts within the UMN neuroscience and psychology community. Inherent to these efforts is the explicit attempt to de-center the dominant academ2022-01-01T00:00:00Z20222025-04-18T22:25:00.248Z2025-04-07T10:10:00.934ZS-EPMC97975303659133710.3389/fnint.2022.1060896