Meet Our Community Partners
The Center for Community and Global Health partnered with Portland community organizations to explore how story can help to heal. These projects were funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Healing Social Suffering Through Narrative program grant.
These unique community projects address social suffering in Portland communities impacted by circumstances such as inequitable access to higher education, and physical and mental illness. Each project is designed to be mutually beneficial: providing community partners with the resources they need to expand the scope of their work. This work brings members of the Portland community together in partnership with Lewis & Clark College students and faculty in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences.
Past Center for Community and Global Health Community Partner Projects
Uncovering Ethics in Everyday Data
The “Data For Good” course, created by Devin Fitzpatrick this spring, was featured in OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting) in partnership with the Oregon nonprofit Growing Gardens. This piece is phenomenal in conveying the importance of humanities, and the implication of ethics in community work. Sophomore Roma Taylor shares her takeaways from this project, and the practical application of her real-world data experience.
This project was supported by the Mellon Foundation through the CCGH Health + Humanities Community Connections Faculty Grant.
Psychology Meets Digital Storytelling
Students in an upper-division psychology course are partnering with local video production company Story Gorge to use the art of digital storytelling to explore the experience of gender.
Where Environment Meets Community
In this spring’s Environmental Engagement course, students connect classroom learning with real-world conversations, partnering with local nonprofits to address polarizing issues and build mutual trust.
How Migrant Stories Are Told
A new course, Playing at the Border: Migration and Art, examines how migrant and refugee stories are told in film, theatre, and visual art, providing students with opportunities to engage directly with Portland’s immigrant communities.