Centers and initiatives make it possible for you to put your education into practice. Through hands-on learning and real-world projects, you will gain the skills and experience needed to thrive in an ever-changing world.
Explore what it means to express yourself through poetry, be inspired through readings by renowned poets, and craft your own verses at The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center.
Blend your cross-disciplinary knowledge and experiences in support of environmental decisions and actions with the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability.
Assess the interconnectedness of people, planet, and profit when developing your solutions to pressing problems through the Conway Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.
Question gender, race, ethnicity, power, and ability as dynamics that shape who gets to participate in creating the worlds in which we live with the Design Thinking Initiative.
Engage with international and intercultural issues to cultivate an understanding of the global context of a Smith education at the Lewis Global Studies Center.
Unlock your leadership capacities through workshops, programs, and talks geared toward creating equitable and thoughtful leaders at the Wurtele Center for Leadership.
In Practice
Reproductive Justice & Human Rights
Human Rights Initiative STRIDE student Olivia Marchand ’28 presented her poster, “The War in Gaza: Women’s Reproductive Justice and Human Rights,” at the spring 2025 Celebrating Collaborations showcase. Marchand’s poster was the result of a semester-long independent research project with human rights leadership specialist Carrie Cuthbert that intersected with and expanded on Marchand’s involvement in reproductive justice programming and events. Marchand intends to continue to develop this research and writing project throughout the academic year.
My Global Story is a collaborative initiative between the Lewis Global Studies Center and Reflective Practices. Each January, international students opt in to an off-campus storytelling retreat, during which they reflect and talk about home, about their paths to college, and their Smith experiences.
Each year, The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center and Design Thinking Initiative invite the Smith community to reimagine an iconic work of literature one page at a time, encouraging artwork and erasure poetry techniques as a means of transforming the work.
