Prior to the pandemic, culturally responsive and racially equitable evaluation (CRREE) approaches were slowly emerging as public health-community partnerships began to pursue more equitable approaches, measures, and outcomes. The pandemic exacerbated the need for community-based research that centers race and culture, provides sustainable outcomes and instills deeper elements of equity & justice in public health practice and research. From our team’s efforts, we offer examples of trainings, projects and relevant dialogue that will help community-based researchers co-create and adopt CRREE approaches. The examples shared will display lessons learned, as well as, opportunities that our team engaged in and co-created with our community partners to systematically identify and address racism, cultural stereotypes, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression primarily in Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities. This roundtable will walk through multi-faceted race, culture, and community-focused strategies, while providing key project learning and evaluation examples. Through CRREE and our tenets of engagement, we co-designed and developed equitable evaluation plans and engagement strategies that helped improve project outcomes. Our examples highlight how we applied our 11 Tenets of a Culturally Responsive and Racial Equity Lens Engagement Process. These easily digestible core tenets offer guidelines for using equity-centered frameworks, such as CRREE. Further, this roundtable discussion offers opportunities to enhance, strengthen and refresh current knowledge and strategies of community-based researchers seeking to practice racially and culturally, equity-centered, evaluation and engagement practices.