 The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of community engagement in order to reach vulnerable populations. To address this challenge, a risk communication framework was developed by a partnership in Southeastern Minnesota. This framework involved the use of bidirectional communication between community leaders and their network members, as well as the leveraging of existing resources and advice from these leaders to inform policy decisions. The results showed that over 14 days, 24 leaders reached out to 9,882 people through nine different platforms in six languages. These efforts suggest that community-engaged research partnerships can be effective in implementing crisis and emergency risk, communication to vulnerable populations during a pandemic. This article was authored by Mark L. Wheeland, Gladys B. Acehidu, Kylie Lance, and others.