Creating Refuge

Jenna Vendil (Bates College) and Ruth Jansich (Macalester College) 

The Creating Refuge Collaboratory will explore how Community Engagement Centers (CECs) on undergraduate campuses can be spaces for community care, resiliency practice, and creative resistance for young people. Community Engagement Centers are situated in intersectional spaces – part of the academic institution, part of the community, and accountable to a wider set of stakeholders beyond the college and to the common good. The Creating Refuge Collaboratory provides a pathway for CEC staff, students, faculty, and community partners to build bridges between communities, to share ideas, experiment, create new openings, examine fractals or patterns, and practice new ways of being as humans, scholars, artists, educators, and practitioners.