
Jandon Center for Community Engagement
The Jandon Center engages faculty, students and community partners on social-change projects that tackle community-driven goals. Through experiential learning and scholarship, students build essential capacities in critical thinking while providing significant leadership on urgent, complex issues facing communities and society.
Advancing Social Equity and Supporting Healthy Communities
Announcements
Meet with one of the members of the Jandon team!
Set up a time to talk with one of us about:
- the CESC Concentration (Maddie)
- the SAJE Fellowship (Nancy)
- Community Service Organization and getting involved locally (Hannah)
- Collective Organizing (Ana Del Conde)
Schedule a time using our scheduling page.
Announcing the latest class of Smith Alliance for Justice & Equity Fellows!
- Josephine Neumann, Study of Women and Gender, '26
- Kerry LaRose, '26
- Morgan Fizer, Environmental Science and Policy, '25
- Mya Wilson, Africana Studies & English, '24
- Nicole Bamberger Segura, Economics, '26
- Shariqa Shaila, Neuroscience, '24
- Vanessa Nicole, Government, '24
- Veta Duncan, Film and Media Studies, '25
- Yena Perice, Study of Women and Gender & Philosophy, '26J
- Ruby Masters, History & Education, ’26
About the Center
We work with community partners to critically engage with theories, data and experiences to improve interdependent aspects of community health. We initiate, encourage, support, test and reflect on collaborative strategies and projects. We aspire to:
- Serve as the center where the ethics of civic engagement and community building remain at the forefront.
- Further build Jandon initiatives that engage campus and community deeply and over the long-term.
- Develop opportunities for ethical civic engagement in the classroom, both in teaching and by supporting course-related community-based work.
- Create a space where anyone can drop by and feel welcome.
I’ve always loved community service, and the Jandon Center helps me bring love for others to create a better world. That’s what Smith is all about.
Jandon Center, by the Numbers
3,500 people
participated in a Jandon Center event, program or project in 2020–21.
700+ hours
of knowledge sharing via the center’s Public Lectures Series in 2020–21.
1,500 masks
created for the community early in the pandemic through the center’s Crafting for Community initiative.
Jandon Center Voices
Contact Jandon Center for Community Engagement
Wright Hall
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
Phone: 413-585-3060 Email: jcce@smith.edu
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