Community Engagement and Partnerships
Through immersion in community partnerships, students develop vision, purpose, experience, and courage to do community work. They leverage the strengths, resources, and insights of social networks, organizations, families, and individuals to transform contexts and improve the lives of marginalized communities.
Core Principles
Develop relationships & networks of expertise
We grow authentic, mutually beneficial, long-term relationships across sectors into powerful partnerships.
Counter injustice and inequities
We tackle social problems that arise from oppressive and marginalizing systems.
Empower
We aim to empower members of marginalized communities and their advocates/allies, and construct pipelines through our engagements.
Co-construct emergent knowledge
We leverage networks to generate knowledge about emerging areas of interest, identify adaptable design principles, and reveal (& disrupt) unintended consequences of design missteps.