This article focuses on the implications and creative possibility catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic and reinvigorated racial justice movement on infrastructure that seeks to build transformational community-engaged teaching and research partnerships. Pulling from existing literature around critical service-learning and the wisdom of scholars from the Black, Indigenous, person of color (BIPOC) community, we discuss how these lasting changes will advance our institution's structures for responsible community engagement, as well as inform the field's focus on antiracist community engagement.