Patricia Maguire is Professor Emeritus of Education and Counseling, Western New Mexico University. Her teaching, research, publications, and activism focus on the interconnections among feminisms, participatory and action research, and social justice. For 25 years, Patricia was Chair of the WNMU-Gallup Graduate Studies Center. Situated in rural New Mexico, the Center served one of the most culturally rich, linguistically and ethnically diverse, yet economically poorest communities in the USA. Inspired by bell hooks and Paulo Freire, Pat believes the classroom is a space of transformative possibilities. Maguire’s ground breaking book, Doing participatory research: a feminist approach (1987) – based on Participatory Research (PR) with Diné (Navajo) women – was one of the earliest feminist critiques of participatory action research. She developed a feminist-informed approach to Teacher Action Research to help educators focus both inwardly on their intersectional identities and classroom practices as well as outwardly on the conditions that shape and influence their students’ lives. Through action research, teachers are encouraged to revision the purposes and improve the practices of education, beginning in their own classrooms and schools. She explores with teachers what happens when they engage in action research with transformative intentions. In recognition of knowledge democracy, she has an open-access website of her life’s work related to feminist PAR/AR.