This qualitative participatory action research project demonstrates how participation in a communitybased internship (CBI), a hybridization of service-learning and internship practices, affects undergraduate students, community partners, and the university at a large public university. This article outlines a rationale for the study, demonstrating that robust knowledge regarding the effects of service-learning and internships exists, but there is a need to understand how hybridization of these high-impact practices (HIPs) affects program stakeholders. Next, the participatory methodological procedures will be highlighted as they are integral to the presentation and interpretation of the data. The findings will demonstrate that although stakeholders in a CBI have similar experiences to traditional service-learning and internship programs, the hybridization of these HIPs creates a unique environment that shapes these experiences. Furthermore, the participatory inquiry raises questions regarding how research ought to be conducted in service-learning and community engagement. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are charged with preparing students for their future professional roles (Coker et al., 2017) while maintaining a civic mission of developing engaged citizens (Ehrlich, 2000). Internships and service-learning experiences have been proposed as pedagogical practices that fulfill these goals-internships as a means to prepare students for professional life (Silva et al., 2016) and service-learning as a means to support the university's civic mission (Nichols, 2016). Therefore, understanding the structure of a program that amalgamates these two high-impact practices (HIPs) (Kuh, 2008) through an examination of the experiences of stakeholders of a community-based internship (CBI) is important. Furthermore, both internships and service-learning are relatively well understood and conceptualized in existing literature, yet there is much less information regarding the hybridization of these practices. Both service-learning and internships have been recognized for their positive impacts on students and have evolved into widely implemented practices; therefore, combining the two into one learning experience seems to be a pathway for future educational practice that meets the goals of HEIs. Context Investigation of a CBI requires a familiarity with existing knowledge of internship and service-learning structures and impacts. Before exploring these pedagogical practices, a brief discussion of HIPs provides a rationale for conceptualizing the CBI as a hybridization of internships and service-learning. According to Kuh (2008), both internships and service-learning are high-impact educational practices, which are defined as teaching and learning practices that are grounded in student activity, engagement, and collaboration. Students who partake in HIPs have shown gains in deep learning and personal development. More recently, hybridization of these practices has been described in the literature. Bringle (2017) termed the pedago...