These editorial reflections revisit SEAJ's mentoring ethos, outlining how we embrace it as joint editors. To this end, we mobilize the caretaker analogy, hoping to convey the nurturing position we strive to adopt in our role, which involves valuing each other's intellectual contributions and promoting social and climate justice through the pursuit of transformative quality research and scholarship while proactively responding to issues of inequity and injustice using the levers we have at our disposal. In light of the recent resurfacing of wider concerns over peer review process in scientific publishing, we continue these reflections through considerations of what embracing the SEAJ ethos implies in the peer review process, humbly hoping to recognize and respect the valuable contribution reviewers make to the journal while also developing a community-based perspective on peer review (Souder, 2011).