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Our programming is curated with your world-class, liberal arts education foundation in mind. Each offering is designed to help you develop your creativity, resilience, and resourcefulness, ensuring that you hone the skills you need to successfully meet your life goals, even during times of uncertainty.

Traveling Diary Tour: Smith Edition

The Smith College Conway Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center has partnered with The Traveling Diary project to mark Smith’s 150th anniversary by celebrating the stories of alums and students.

About the Project

Traveling Diaries underscore the notion that creativity flourishes through collaboration, stories act as conduits linking individuals, and collective imagination can lead to boundless possibilities. The Conway Center invites students and alums to add your story, your voice, your pain, your joy, your imagination to the pages of the Smith edition of the Traveling Diaries that will circulate worldwide between July 1 and December 31, 2025.

About the Diary

The Traveling Diary project was born from Kyra Peralte’s desire for meaningful connection during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many turned to digital platforms—often resulting in “Zoom fatigue”—Peralte took a different route: she picked up a notebook, wrote her story, and mailed the book to a stranger with an invitation to continue the narrative. What began as one story has since grown into a global movement. Since 2020, a grassroots community of over 2,000 women across 33 countries has filled more than 1,500 pages in 40 physical and digital diaries. The Traveling Diary reminds us that vulnerability is a form of leadership, and that community can be built one page, one story, one voice at a time. Through this project, Peralte continues to challenge the fast-paced norms of startup culture by prioritizing intention, care, and creativity.

Spring Showcases

At Smith, students have a wide range of opportunities to showcase their scholarly projects, creative talent, and innovative solutions to complex problems, including at Joypalooza.

Discover more ways Smithies get to share their projects with the community.

Explore Spring Showcases

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