The Glide Foundation (GLIDE), alongside its affiliated Glide Memorial Church, is an extraordinarily inclusive environment--a historic haven for LGBTQ people (Stryker, 2008, p. 71), a resource for people in need of clean needles or overdose reversal (Associated Press, 2019), and an after-school youth program for immigrant families in San Francisco. Inclusion at GLIDE is a form of collective survival. This article illuminates the use of Recovery Circles, a community-based practice developed in and by a San Francisco African American community, as a participatory methodology for on-site multicultural student reflection and growth in the Emerging Leaders Internship Program at GLIDE. The integration of a Black Recovery model into an internship program serves as a tonic for college-community engagement that could otherwise end up focused on the hegemonic needs and priorities of higher education institutions. This model starts from knowing that there is enough wisdom and expertise within a community to address its own challenges, and that this wisdom subsequently offers a powerful gift and tools to people far beyond San Francisco's Tenderloin. This manifestation of an "epistemic justice," a linking of knowledge and wisdom to its source, is a natural outgrowth of Black practices whose inherent generosity and universality have been honored by those who receive and join the heritage.