From climate change and large-scale involuntary migration to profound economic inequities and health disparities, the world faces a range of complex and interconnected challenges. Often, these challenges have global dimensions, and increasingly, these challenges are described in terms of “crisis” and “chaos” – implying their destabilizing effects at multiple levels, from ecosystems to institutions to daily lives. Such challenges require coordinated, collaborative, and collective action across boundaries of university and community, across borders of nation states, and across lines of intersectional and institutional privilege. As community psychologists, who often find themselves working at these critical junctures and most often from a position of privilege, it is imperative to engage in reflexive dialogue aimed toward strengthening our abilities to work in solidarity with communities to promote just social transformation. In this interactive roundtable discussion, five facilitators from the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand will raise questions rooted in their experiences with international, community-engaged, and action-oriented research in the areas of sustainability, health, and human rights. For example, how do we envision and live out our commitments to solidarity-driven research in a context where global power structures and nationality-based privilege often translate into exploitative research relationships and outcomes? Put differently, how do we push back against extractive research practices, particularly in the context of global crises (e.g., the climate and refugee crises) that already exacerbate existing social inequalities? And in doing so, how do notions of empowerment and self-determination for communities sit alongside the need for collaboration and compromise? Finally, how must the traditional role and expectations of academic systems transform in order to facilitate our ability to work adaptively in the midst of instability? We will collectively explore these and other questions, as well as develop a contact list of attendees with shared interests who wish to continue this crucial conversation.