ASAM 230--Civic Engagement Through Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies is a critical service learning course that effects social change by fostering students' leadership, activism, and professional aspirations. Our team (a professor and six alumni, some of whom became community partners) conducted a longitudinal, autoethnographic self-study centering social justice in the scholarship of community engagement. Making scholarly choices aligned with Asian American studies' goals to transform higher education and society, we centralize AAPI counter-narratives as people of color whose voices are neglected in educational research, challenge assumptions of what "community" means in community-engaged scholarship, and employ intersectionality and critical race theory as analytical lenses to expand what knowledge is valued. We found that the course's curricular elements and focus on community-mindedness, radical care, and mindful power sparked the alumni's reflective consciousness, leading to their intentional commitment to effect social change through their personal and professional lives.