Love Data Week featured insightful discussions on the labor behind data and the power of maps in storytelling.

This month’s spotlight focuses on some of the ways faculty at Brown are contributing to enhancing STEM education with local K-12 students and teachers.

Julie Hajducky ‘26 is a Swearer Student Advisory Committee member and a Bonner Community Fellow.

This month’s spotlight focuses on the Summer 2024 Laidlaw Scholars and a sample project: developing a community-centered database for reproductive justice resources.

Congratulations to our graduating students and Swearer award winners!

A Laidlaw Scholar with the Swearer Center, Haleema Aslam ‘26, is currently studying Psychology and Entrepreneurship as a RUE (Resumed Undergraduate Education) student at Brown.

This month, we spotlight Mya Roberson, a Brown alumna (2016), a trustee (2016-2019, 2022-2028) of the Brown Corporation and an engaged faculty member at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Batool Behnam, Graduate Assistant with Swearer Center’s community partnership team and current master's student at Brown’s School of Public Health, is concentrating on Global Health and graduating this Spring 2024. Through research, teaching and community services, Behnam’s dream is to reduce inequalities among communities.

Paris Dior ‘25, a Social Innovation Fellow at the Swearer Center, is also pursuing the Nelson Center’s Entrepreneurship Certificate while concentrating in International and Public Affairs.

From an extremely strong pool of nominees, a committee representing student, staff, faculty and community partner perspectives selected Scott AnderBois and Myles Lennon as the 2024 recipients of the Howard R. Swearer Engaged Faculty Awards.

Maya Laur ’24, Swearer Center Storyteller and Community-Based Learning and Research (CBLR) Fellow, is also pursuing the Engaged Scholarship Certificate as a Modern Culture and Media Studies concentrates. Laur shares her academic and personal experience engaging through the Swearer Center, reflecting on opportunities that allowed her to put her studies of multidisciplinary art forms into practice for social good.

Maya Laur '24 shares creative pieces on local organization, 134 Collaborative

In 2022, Brown University “established an official land acknowledgment that recognizes and honors its location within the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett Indian Tribe” as one of the “five commitments Brown is making to build understanding of the relationship between its campus community, Indigenous peoples of the region and the land on which Brown is situated.”

Founded in 2017 in cooperation with the Moses Brown School, the SquashBusters Providence chapter is part of a national community-based organization that introduces squash to young people in urban public schools.

This month is the last in a series of spotlights on the value of courses connecting CBLR with other curricular programs: COEX, RPP and WRIT

This month, our partners both on and off-campus have highlighted ways to engage with local communities aimed at celebrating, empowering and connecting the voices of Black community members all year round.

Each year, the Swearer Center's Community Advisory Board (CAB) invites individuals and groups in Rhode Island to submit nominations (including self-nominations) for three awards recognizing organizational work. The CAB Awards aim to highlight and support the work of agencies in the public and social sectors that are moving the needle in key areas.

Swearer Center Laidlaw Scholar, Marisol Jimenez '25, has connected her interest in community engagement, an integral part of her high school experience, with her academic pursuits here at Brown.

This month’s spotlight focuses on public sociology and community engagement, with excerpts from Dr. Prudence Carter’s ASA presidential speech and reflections from two former Swearer Center graduate proctors.

Jay Philbrick ’24.5, is a Bonner Community Fellow, Laidlaw Scholar and Swearer Center Student Advisory Committee member. An Applied Mathematics-Economics and Computer Science concentrator, he is interested in using economic research and software development for social change.