Anthropologists and ethnographers have long cultivated methods that benefit from closely aligning the processes of data collection and analysis. Traditionally, this alignment has been personified by the heroic white man (and sometimes woman) claiming unique insights into disadvantaged “others” by spending time with them and analysing their behavior. Citizen ethnography aims to emulate the strengths of ethnographic methods while breaking from past associations and blind spots of the disciplines in which they have developed. This destabilizes some of the most intractable hierarchies in development research. What does it involve? It recruits non-academic partners from communities where research is taking place to work as ethnographic researchers. We explain how in more detail. One key aim is to tear down the distinction between data production and data analysis. We do not believe in a division of labor whereby enumerators collect qualitative data “on the ground” and project managers or research specialists analyse the data in the offices.