Creando Comunidad is a yearlong, cohort-based learning community hosted by the Morgridge Center for Public Service intended to develop leadership skills and build connections amongst UW undergraduates specifically interested in mobilizing social change and addressing systemic oppression through critical community engagement with communities of color.
This learning cohort explores essential aspects of community engagement, such as positionality, power analysis, and civic participation, among others. Additionally, voices of community and campus leaders are integrated throughout the program to provide participants opportunities for mentorship and network-building.
Program Components
The application deadline is now closed.
For questions, please email Cory at sprinkel@wisc.edu
In Creando Comunidad, students will work with Morgridge Center staff and community leaders from the Madison area to develop a learning community that:
- Co-develops strategies and communities of mentorship and support to grow and sustain students’ community-engaged work within their personal and professional lives
- Applies critical lenses to community engagement and social change experiences that center the needs, experiences, and wisdom of diverse communities
- Explores and interrogates a variety of innovative theories and practices related to community engagement, such as participatory action research, counter storytelling, and cultural wealth
To be eligible for the Creando Comunidad Fellows Program students must:
- Be an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with at least one year left to degree completion
- Have demonstrated interest or experience in promoting equity, inclusion, and social justice for communities of color
- Students may demonstrate these criteria through personal statements, history of employment or volunteer service, academic coursework, or involvement in community, university, or student organizations or activities with the required focus
- Commit to attending monthly cohort meetings, which will occur on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 5:30-6:30pm (excluding December and May) and not a current or past employee of the Morgridge Center