The Imagining Democracy Lab is a multidisciplinary effort to link imagination, knowledge, and action to advance civic and political engagement. Led by Prof. Carol Anderson (African American Studies) and Prof. Bernard Fraga (Political Science), the lab is a research ecosystem that combines academic and public scholarship with social justice activism, fostering direct connections to community organizations and to the public. A major goal of the research lab is to connect academic and real-world understandings of barriers to democratic enfranchisement and responsiveness, and gain access to information that helps participants take action, from local to national levels. Faculty, postdocs, and students participate in the lab thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.