She is a folklorist passionate about engaged ethnography, social justice, and community-based collaborative research. Watterson received her PhD in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and has been teaching courses that combine arts and protest, community building, and social change for many years: in Cabrini College’s (PA) distinctive Justice Matters curriculum and previous to that, through affiliation with the Princeton (NJ) Community [Page xxx]Based Learning Initiative (CBLI), and as part of the University of Pennsylvania’s academically based service-learning courses.