Dr. Fitzsimmons’ work emphasizes participatory and community-based research methods as well as community-engaged writing, research, and teaching projects. Their public work has included serving as an Associate Editor for Kansas City citizen journalism project Independent Media Association, as a humanities consultant for a Humanities Kansas “Humanities for All” grant, an Applied Humanities Fellow with the Arts Council of Johnson County (KS), and as a blog editor for books-to-prisons program Liberation Lit.
