Swearer Center for Public Service
          
        Swearer Center for Public Service
The Swearer Center is a community of scholars, students, practitioners and community members who works together to build on community strengths and address community challenges.
Swearer Center for Public Service
The Swearer Center is a community of scholars, students, practitioners and community members who works together to build on community strengths and address community challenges.
Students as Changemakers
  Through the Swearer Center, students combine their passion for socially just change and community engagement with their academic, career and life goals. Swearer Center programs provide students with community-engaged, cohort-based experiential learning opportunities.
        
  For Students
    
  
      A Hub for Community Engagement
  The Swearer Center cultivates and stewards a wide range of community partnerships to advance the common good.
        
  For Community Partners
    
  
      Engaged Scholarship
  The Swearer Center works with faculty and staff across Brown seeking to strengthen their community engagement as a means of advancing their goals for student learning, diversity and inclusion, research, or public impact – while also addressing community-identified priorities.
        
  For Faculty and Staff
    
  
      Recent News
  In Central Providence, community change isn’t just a vision—it’s being measured, mapped and mobilized.
          
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        Swearer Center's News from Brown
  As senior manager of community partnerships at the Swearer Center, Inoa has expanded educational opportunities for thousands of local kids while strengthening Brown’s ties to the Providence community.
          
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    News from Brown
          
      Sophia Wu: Crab wrangler, ocean dreamer
  Brown sophomore Sophia Wu is spending her summer at Save the Bay in Rhode Island, wrangling crabs, supporting summer camps for kids and exploring a future in marine science.
          
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          Through everything from scavenger hunts to cooking demonstrations, the Brown undergraduate is connecting community members and local agriculture as an intern with Farm Fresh Rhode Island.
          
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        Contact Information
Swearer Center | Brown University
2 Stimson Avenue
Box 1974
Providence, RI 02912
- Tel: +1 (401) 863-2338
- Email: swearer_center@brown.edu